XXXiv REPOBT — 1853. 



That the Committee for providing a large outline Map of the World, be 

 re-appointed, with the addition of Sir James Ross and Dr. R. G. Latham ; 

 with £1!^ at their disposal for the purpose. 



Not ijivolving Grants of Money or Application to Government or Public 

 Authorities. 



That Lieut.-Colonel Portlock, Professor James Forbes, Mr. Mallet, Mr. 

 Phillips, Dr. Robinson, Colonel Sabine, and Professor Stokes, be requested 

 to consider and report upon the best form of apparatus for registering the 

 direction and amount of earthquake vibrations. 



That Colonel Sabine be requested to prepare a Report on the principal 

 magnetical results obtained at the magnetical observatories. 



That Dr. Gladstone be requested to continue his inquiries on the influence 

 of light on the vitality of plants. 



That Mr. Robert Hunt be requested to continue his investigations of the 

 chemical action of the solar rays. 



That the following Gentlemen be a Committee to report on the best means 

 of preserving pyritous and other specimens of organic remains which are 

 liable to decomposition, viz. J. S. Bowerbank, Esq., Professor Johnston, 

 J. E. Lee, Esq. 



That Mr. Spence Bate be requested to give a Report on the present state 

 of our knowledge of the lower forms of British Crustacea. 



That the Kew Committee be requested to furnish a Report to the Coun- 

 cil, on the definition of the boiling-point of water at present adopted in this 

 country for the thermometric scale; and that the Council be requested to 

 communicate with the President and Council of the Royal Society, should 

 any change in that respect be deemed desirable. 



That Professor Johnston be requested to furnish a Report on the relations 

 of Chemistry to Geology. 



That the following papers, with the consent of the authors, be printed ia 

 full in the Transactions of the British Association for the year 1853: — 



W. Fairbairn Esq. — Account of experimental researches to determine 

 the Strength of Locomotive Boilers, and the causes which lead to 

 Explosions. 

 James Oldham, Esq. — On some of the Physical Features of the Humb^r. 



. . On the Rise, Progress, and Present Position of 



Steam Navigation in Hull. 

 J. P. Bell, Esq., M.D. — Observations on the Character and Measure 

 ments of Degradation of the Yorkshire Coast. 



That Mr. John Frederick Bateman, C.E., F.G.S., be requested to Report 

 on the state of our knowledge on the supply of water to towns. 



That the thanks of the British Association be given to the Parliamentary 

 Committee, for the unceasing attention they have paid to the interests of 

 science, both in communications to Government, and in proceedings in the 

 Houses of Parliament. 



The Members of the British Association have learned with satisfaction 

 that it is the intention of Government to direct, that ia future, daily meteoro 

 logical observations shall be made at sea, in correspondence with the plan 

 adopted by the Government of the United States, on the suggestion of Lieut. 

 Maury, and to take such further steps, in reference to the Mercantile Marine 

 of Great Britain, as may be best suited to stimulate and encourage the 

 Masters of British merchant ships to take interest in investigations by which 

 the times of passage between different ports have already, in many instances,, 

 been materially shortened, and which may lead to other results of the great 

 est importance to practical navigation. 



