XXV1 REPORT—1846. 
ee. ae £ 
. fa. 
Brought forward 605 15 10 Brought forward 654 6 10 
Marine Zoology of Bri- Researches on Atmo- 
TAD felalatous'seia wetewiete. LOMO O spheric Waves...... 3° 8° 8 
Exotic Anoplura..1844 25 0 0 | Captive Balloons..1844 819 8 
Expenses attending Ane- Varieties of the Human 
mometers.,...+2.-- Il 7 6 Race 4... .telazee F's 
Anemometers’ Repairs. 2 3 6 | Statistics of Sickness and 
Carried forward 654 6 10 Mortality at York .._ 12 0 0 
£685 16 0 
Extracts from Resolutions of the General Committee. 
Committees and individuals, to whom grants of money for scientific pur- 
poses have been entrusted, are required to present to each following meeting 
of the Association a Report of the progress which has been made ; with a 
statement of the sums which have been expended, and the balance which 
remains disposable on each grant. 
Grants of pecuniary aid for scientific purposes from the funds of the Asso- 
ciation expire at the ensuing meeting, unless it shall appear by a Report that 
the Recommendations have been acted on, or a continuation of them be ordered 
by the Genera] Committee. 
In each Committee, the Member first named is the person entitled to call 
on the Treasurer, John Taylor, Esq., 2 Duke Street, Adelphi, London, for 
such portion of the sum granted as may from time to time be required. 
In grants of money to Committees, the Association does not contemplate 
the payment of personal expenses to the Members, 
In all cases where additional grants of money are made for the continua 
tion of Researches at the cost of the Association, the sum named shall be 
deemed to include, as a part of the amount, the specified balance which may 
remain unpaid on the former grant for the same object. 
On Thursday evening, September 10th, at 8 p.m., in the Victoria Rooms, 
Southampton, the late President, Sir John F. W. Herschel, Bart., F.R.S., 
resigned his office to Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, G.C.S“.S., F.R.S., who 
took the Chair at the General Meeting, and delivered an Address, for which 
see p. XXvVil. 
On Friday evening, September 11th, in the same room, Professor Owen, 
F.R.S., delivered a Discourse on the Fossil Mammalia of the British Islands. 
On Monday evening, in the same room, Charles Lyell, Esq., F.R.S., de- 
livered a Discourse on the Valley and Delta of the Mississippi, and other 
points in the Geology of the United States, from observations made in the 
years 1845-46. 
On Tuesday evening, in the same room, W. R. Grove, Esq. explained 
the properties of the Explosive Substance recently discovered by Dr. Schon- 
bein; and communicated some recent researches of his own, on the Decom- 
position of Water into its constituent Gases by Heat. 
On Wednesday evening, at 8 p.m., in the same room, the Concluding 
General Meeting of the Association was held, when the Proceedings of the 
General Committee, and the grants of money for scientific purposes, were 
explained to the Members. 
The Meeting was adjourned to Oxford, on the 24th of June, 1847. 
