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horizontal pendulums. (38.) That a committee, gern of Mr. 
H. C. Russell, Mr. Baracchi, Mr. C, C. Farr, Mr. Hogg, and Mr. 
Tove, be appointed to consider and report upon the progress of 
investigations in Terrestrial Magnetism in Australasia, with Mr. 
Baracchi as Secretary. Agreed to. 
Section B recommended the change of the name to Chemistry, 
Metallurgy, and Mineralogy. Agreed to. 
Recommended by Section 6 (Geology and Palzontology), the 
following to be members of the Giaciaf Committee :—Captain 
F. W. Hutton, F.R.S., E. G. Hogg, A. Gibb Maitiand, W. H. 
Rands, R. M. Johnston, G. Sweet, W. Twelvetrees, W. How- 
chin, Professor Gregory, and Professor T. W. E. David, F.K.S. 
(Secretary). 
Committee for recording structural features, such as important 
folds and faults in Australia, with a view to studying the evolu- 
tion of the Australasian land surface :—Professor J. W. Gregory, 
W. H. Twelvetrees, G. A. Waller, T. S. Hall, M.A., Hy. L. 
Brown, A.R.S.M., Walter Howchin, A. Gibb Maitland, K. F. 
Pittman, A.R.S.M. , W. H. Rands, W. H. Clunes Ross, B. Se., and 
Professor Dav id, Ff. BS, (Secretary). 
That. the Committee of Geological Survey to be re-appointed, 
with the additions of the names of G. Halligan and Mr. Ferbur. 
A committee to recommend a uniform system for the nomencla- 
ture of the igneous rocks of Australasia :—Mr. R. M. Johnston, 
F.S.S., W. H. Twelvetrees, Professor Gregory, Professor David, 
W.G. Woollnough, B.Sce., A. Gibb Maitland, ks Waller, E. eM 
Hogg, M.A., W. F. Petterd, Captain Hutton, H. J. Jenkins, 
A.R.S.M., A. W. Howitt, W. HH. Rands, W. A. "MacLeod, B.Sce., 
A. J. Dunstan, R. M. Johnston, and G. W. Card (Secretaries), 
Mr. W. H. Twelvetrees. 
Recommended by Section D (Biology)—-That the General 
Council of this Association. be asked to communicate with the 
Government of New Zealand, and to urge respectfully that the 
construction of the proposed. Biological Station, near Dunedin, 
be proceeded with as a matter of Colonial importance. 
That a committee, consisting of Messrs. A. Morton, W. L. 
May, C. J. Atkins, R. M. Johnston, and Colonel W. V. Legge, be 
appointed to carry on Marine Biological research in the neigh- 
bourhood of Hobart; that Mr. Morton be Secretary and Con- 
vener; and that a grant of £50 be placed at their disposal. 
This Committee recommends the General Council that the 
pomp lites on the Catalogue of the Marine Mollusca of Australia 
be discharged. 
That, in view of the enormous waste of timber, and of the other 
valuable products derivable from it, which is now going on, it is 
urgently necessary, in the opinion of this Association, both from 
commercial and scientific points of view, that more effective 
measures should be adopted for the conservation of forests 
throughout Australia. 
That it is advisable that suitable forest areas, especially at 
the sources of rivers and streams, should be rendered inalienable, 
and vested in permanent boards, which should contro! the use of 
the timber thereon; and that other forest lands, wholly or in 
part, denuded of timber, should also be vested in such boards for 
te. improvement of existing timber areas or natural regeneration 
of forests. 
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