BESBARCHES IN SCIENCE. XXIX 



Recommendations adopted by the General Committee at the 

 Ipswich Meeting in July 1851. 



Involving Grants of Money. 



The Establishment at Kew Observatory £300. 



That Professor J. D. Forbes be requested to continue a Series of Experi- 

 ments, for the purpose of testing the results of the Mathematical Theory of 

 Heat ; that Professor Kelland be requested to co-operate with him ; and that 

 £50 be placed at the disposal of Prof. Forbes for the purpose. 



That Professor E. Forbes and Professor Bell be requested to continue their 

 assistance to Dr. Thomas Williams in his researches on the Annelida, with 

 £10 at their disposal. 



That the Committee on the Vitality of Seeds be requested to continue 

 their attention to that subject, with £6 at their disposal. 



That a Committee, consisting of Mr. K. Hunt, Dr. G. Wilson, and Dr. 

 Gladstone, be requested to investigate the influence of the solar radiations 

 on chemical combinations, electrical phaenomena, and the vital powers of 

 plants growing under different atmospheric conditions, with £20 at their 

 disposal. 



That Lord Monteagle, Sir J. Boileau, Mr. G. R. Porter, Mr. J. Fletcher, 

 Dr. Stark, and Professor Hancock, be requested to prepare a Report on the 

 Census of the United Kingdom ; and that the sum of £20 be placed at their 

 disposal for the purpose. 



That Mr. W. Fairbairn, C.E., be requested to make a series of Experi- 

 ments on the tensile strength of Wrought Iron Boiler-Plates at various tem- 

 peratures ; and that the sum of £20 be placed at his disposal for the purpose. 



That Professor Ramsay be requested to prepare a large Geological Map 

 of Great Britain and Ireland for the use of the Geological Section during 

 the Meetings of the Association, with £15 at his disposal for the purpose. 



Involving Application to Government or Public Institutions, or Members of 

 tJie Legislature. 



That the Parliamentary Committee of the British Association do consist 

 of Thirteen Members. 



That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be requested to constitute 

 the Committee : — The Lord Wrottesley, the Duke of Argyll, the Earl of 

 Enniskillen, the Earl of Harrowby, the Earl Cathcart, the Earl of Rosse, 

 the Lord Bishop of Oxford, Sir Philip Egerton, Bart., Sir Charles Lemon, 

 Bart., Sir Robert H. Inglis, Bart., Sir J. V. B. Johnstone, Bart., J. H. Vi- 

 vian, Esq., James Heywood, Esq. 



That in case of vacancies occurring in the Committee, the General Com- 

 mittee shall, at their next ensuing Meeting, proceed to fill up such vacancies 

 from Members of the British Association who are Members of either House 

 of Parliament, and who have either communicated to a Philosophical Society 

 any paper which has been printed in its Transactions, or have advanced the 

 interests of Science. 



That the Parliamentary Committee shall have power to appoint Members 

 of the Legislature who are Members of the British Association qualified as 

 above mentioned, to act ad interim till such vacancies be supplied. 



That the Parliamentary Committee have the power to call in the aid of 

 any Members of the Legislature on any occasion on which they may deem 

 such assistance expedient. 



That the Rev. Dr. Whewell, the Earl of Rosse, Sir John F. W. Herschel, 

 and the Astronomer Royal, be a Committee to apply to Her Majesty's Govern- 

 ment with a view of inducing them to send an expedition consisting of one 



