RESEARCHES IN SCIENCE. xix 
REcoMMENDATIONS ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL COMMITTEE AT THE 
Soutnamrton Merrrine In SEPTEMBER 1846. 
Involving Applications to Government and Public Institutions. 
That Her Majesty's Government be requested to direct the publication of 
the Meteorological Observations made by the Officers of the Irish Trigono- 
metrical Survey at Mountjoy and the Pigeon House since the year 1834. 
That application be made to Her Majesty's Government, to direct that 
during the progress of the Ordnance Trigonometrical Surveys in the North 
of Scotland, the so-called parallel roads of Glen Roy and the adjoining coun- 
try be accurately surveyed, with the view of determining whether they are 
truly parallel and horizontal, the intervening distances, and their elevations 
above the present Sea-level. 
Recommendations for Reports and Researches not involving Grants of Money. 
That Mr. Hopkins be requested to furnish, at the next Meeting of the As- 
sociation, a Report on the Theory of such movements and displacements of 
the Earth’s Crust, as may be connected with Earthquakes. 
- That Mr. Mallet be requested to furnish, at the same time, a Report of 
the Static and Dynamic Facts which have been observed to be the results of 
Earthquakes, or connected with them. 
_ That Mr. Ellis be requested to continue his Report on the recent Progress 
of Analysis. 
That Professor Edward Forbes be requested to prepare a Report on the 
State of our knowledge of the Acalephe. 
That Mr. J. Scott Russell be requested to prepare a Report on the pre- 
sent condition of the Science of Naval Construction, including Steam Navi- 
ation. 
¥ That Mr. Robert Mallet be requested to continue his inquiry into the 
Corrosion of Iron Rails in and out of use. 
That Mr. Robert Hunt be requested to continue his investigations with 
the Actinograph, and that Mr. Ronalds be associated with him (the instru- 
_ ment to be placed at Kew). 
i That Mr. Robert Hunt be requested to continue his investigations on the 
i Influence of Light on the Growth of Plants. 
é That a Committee, consisting of The Master of Trinity College, Cam- 
bridge, and Capt. Sir James C. Ross, R.N., be requested to draw up a Plan 
for a Naval Expedition for the purpose of completing our knowledge of the 
_ progress of the Tides. 
That the Master of Trinity. College, Cambridge be requested to draw up 
brief Instructions for Tide-observations by Voyagers and Surveyors, with a 
_ view to a speedy determination of the course of the Tide-wave. 
i That Professor Forchhammer’s paper on Sea-Currents be printed entire 
among the Reports of the Association. 
That Professor Owen’s paper on the Homologies of the Cranial Vertebre 
be printed entire among the Reports of the Association. 
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