RESEARCHES IN SCIENCE. XXXV 



The British Association entirely concurs in the opinion, that to make the 

 observations thus contemplated serviceable for the purposes for which they 

 are designed, it will be necessary to make provision for their co-ordination, 

 and for deriving from them the instruction which they may be capable of 

 yielding, primarily for the advantage of navigation, and secondarily for the 

 benefit of science. 



In this view the General Committee requests that the Council will com- 

 municate on the subject with the Parliamentary Committee, and will take 

 such steps, either by deputation to Government or otherwise, as may appear 

 to them desirable. 



That as very great inconvenience is frequently occasioned by the injury 

 or destruction of instruments and specimens arriving from Foreign parts, 

 arising from careless re-packing at the Custom-House, it be referred to the 

 Council to consider of the best mode of obtaining a remedy for the evil. 



Synopsis of Grants of Money appropriated to Scientific Objects by the 

 General Committee at the Hull Meeting in September 1853, with the 

 Name of the Member, who alone, or as the First of a Committee, is 

 entitled to draw for the Money. 



Kew Observatory. £ s. d. 



At the disposal of the Council for defraying Expenses 200 



Physical Science. 

 Earl of Rosse. — Committee to investigate the Physical aspect 



of the Moon 25 



FoaBES, Prof. — Expense of certain Thermometers constructed 



for the inquiry on Conduction of Heat 4 2 



Chemical Science. 



Hodges, Prof. — Investigations on Flax 20 



Rankine, Mr. — On the Cooling of Air in Hot Climates .... 20 

 Fairbairn, Mr — On the Effects of Temperature on Wrought 



Iron Plates 10 



Geology. 

 Mallet, Mr. — Experiments on Earthquake Waves 50 



Natural History. 

 Lankester, Dr. — Tables for the Registration of Periodical 



Phenomena 10 



Lankester, Dr. — On British Annelida 10 



Hyndman, Mr.— Dredging on the North and East Coasts of 



Ireland 10 



Daubeny, Dr. — Vitality of Seeds 5 10 



Geography and Ethnology. 

 MuRCHisoN, Sir R. I — Large outline Map of the World .... 15 



Grants £379 12 



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