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RESEARCHES IN SCIENCE, XXiil 
That Mr. Spence and Mr. T. V. Wollaston be a Committee for the pur- 
pose of assisting Mr. Newport in drawing up a Report on Scorpionide and 
Tracheary Arachnidz, with the sum of £10 at their disposal. » 
That Professor E. Forbes and Professor T. Bell be a Committee for as- 
sisting Dr. T. Williams in drawing up 2 Report on the state of our knowledge 
of British Annelidz, with £10 at their disposal. 
That H. E. Strickland, Esq., Dr. Daubeny, Dr. Lindley, and Professor 
Henslow, be requested to form a Committee for conducting Experiments on 
the Vitality of Seeds, with £10 at their disposal. 
That Professor E. Forbes, and the other members already named on the 
Committee for Dredging, with the ‘addition of Colonel Portlock and Dr.. 
Williams, be requested to continue their investigations, with £10 at their 
disposal. 
That Dr. Lankester, Mr. R. Taylor, Mr. W. Thompson, Mr. Jenyns, 
- Professor Henslow, Mr. A. Henfrey, Sir W. C. Trevelyan, Bart., and Mr. 
Peach, be requested to continue their superintendence of the drawing up 
of Tables for the Registration of Periodical Phenomena, with £5 at their 
disposal. 
That certain Bills, amounting to £13 10s., on account of Anemometrical 
Observations, formerly carried on at Edinburgh, be paid; and that the 
Anemometer be transferred to the Assistant-General Secretary, at York. 
Not involving Grants of Money, or Applications to Government. 
That Dr. Schunck be requested to continue his Investigations on Colouring 
Matters. 
That Dr. Andrews be requested to prepare a Report on the Heat developed 
in Chemical Action. 
That Mr. R. Hunt be requested to prepare a Report on the present state 
of our Knowledge of the Chemical Influence of the Solar Radiations. 
That Professor E. Forbes, Dr. Playfair, Dr. Carpenter, and M. A. Han- 
cock, be a Committee to report on the Perforating Apparatus of Mollusca. 
That Mr. Mallet be requested to continue his preparation for a Report on 
the Facts of Earthquakes. 
That Mr. G. G. Stokes be requested to prepare a Report on Physical 
Optics, in continuation of Dr. Lloyd’s Report on that subject. 
That the communication of Dr. Percy on the Extraction of Silver by the 
wet way, be printed entire in the next Volume of Transactions. 
That the Communication by Mr. Joseph Glynn, on Hydraulic Pressure 
Engines, be printed entire in the next Volume of Transactions. 
That a Communication by Mr. J. P. Budd, on the advantageous Use made 
of the Gaseous Escape from the Blast Furnaces of Ystalyfera, be printed entire 
in the Transactions. 
That the Assistant General Secretary be authorised, on consultation with 
Professor Powell, to insert in the next Volume of Transactions, such portions 
of Professor Powell’s Communication on Luminous Meteors, as may be ne- 
cessary to complete the recorded observations of that Phenomenon. 
That the Committee appointed in 1838, for determining the resistance of 
Railway Trains, be re-appointed, for the purposes of repeating those ex- 
_ periments at the high velocities, and in the altered circumstances of Railways 
at the present time,—the following Gentlemen to form the Committee, viz. : 
_ —Mr. Hardman Earle, Mr, George Rennie, Mr. Edward Woods, Mr. T. 
Froude, Mr. J. Glynn, Mr. Wyndham Harding, and Mr. J. S. Russell. 
That the Assistant General Secretary be requested to form a complete List 
