October 29, 1914] 



NATURE 



The collection and investiga- 

 tion of material of Austra- 

 lian Cycadaceae, especially 

 Bowenia from Queensland 

 and Macrozannia from 

 West Australia — Prof. A. A. 

 Lawson ... ... ... 25 



To cut sections of Australian 

 fossil plants, with especial 

 reference to a specimen of 

 Zygopteris from Simpson 's 

 Station, Barraba, N.S.W. 

 — Prof. Lang 25 



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Section L — Educational Science. 



To inquire into and report 

 upon the methods and re- 

 sults of research into the 

 mental and physical factors 

 involved in education — Dr. 

 C. S. Myers ... ... ... 30 o o 



The influence of school books 

 upon eyesight — Dr. G. A. 

 Auden ... 500 



To inquire into and report on 

 the number, distribution and 

 respective values of scholar- 

 ships, exhibitions and bur- 

 saries held by university 

 students during their under- 

 graduate course, and on 

 funds private and open 

 available for their augmen- 

 tation — Sir Henry Miers ... 5 o o 



To examine, inquire into, and 



report on the character, 



work, and maintenance of 

 museums, with a view to 

 their organisation and de- 

 velopment as institutions for 

 education and research; and 

 especially to inquire into 

 the requirements of schools 

 — Prof. J. A. Green ... 20 o o 



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 Corresponding Societies. 

 Corresponding Societies Com- 

 mittee for the preparation 

 of their report — Mr. W. 

 Whitaker ... .. ... 25 o o 



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Total ;^i634 16 6 



The following research committees, not receiving 

 grants of money, except in a few cases from the 

 Caird Fund, were also appointed : — 



Radio-telegraphic investigation — Sir Oliver Lodge. 



To aid the work of establishing a solar observatory- 

 in Australia — (chairman not appointed). 



Determination of gravity at sea — Prof. A. E. Love. 



Research on the utilisation of brown coal bye- 

 products — Prof. Orme Masson. 



To report on the botanical and chemical characters 

 of the Eucalypts and their correlation — Prof. H. E. 

 Armstrong. 



The collection, preservation, and systematic regis- 

 tration of photographs of geological interest — Prof. J. 

 Geikie. 



To consider the preparation of a list of sfratigraphical 

 names, used in the British Isles, in connection with 

 the lexicon of stratigraphical names in course of pre- 

 paration bv the International Geological Congress — 

 Dr. J. E. Marr. 



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To consider the nomenclature of the Carboniferous, 

 Permo-Carboniferous, and Permian rocks of the 

 southern hemisphere — Prof. T. W. Edgeworth David. 



To aid competent investigators selected by the com- 

 mittee to carry on definite pieces of work at the 

 Zoological Station at Naples — Mr. E. S. Goodrich. 



To investigate the feeding habits of British birds by 

 a study of the contents of the crops and gizzards of 

 both adults and nestlings, and by collation of observa- 

 tional evidence, with the object of obtaining precise 

 knowledge as to the economic status of many of our 

 commoner birds affecting rural science — Dr. A. E. 

 Shipley. 



To defray expenses connected with work on the 

 inheritance and development of secondary sexual char- 

 acters in birds — Prof. G. C. Bourne. 



To summon meetings in London or elsewhere for 

 the consideration of matters affecting the interests of 

 zoology or zoologists, and to obtain by correspondence 

 the opinion of zoologists on matters of a similar kind, 

 with power to raise by subscription from each zoologist 

 a sum of money for defraying current expenses of the 

 organisation — Sir E. Ray Lankester. 



To nominate competent naturalists to perform 

 definite pieces of work at the Marine Laboratory, Ply- 

 mouth — Prof. A. Dendy. 



To formulate a definite system on which collectors 

 should record their captures — Prof. J. W. H. Trail. 



A natural history survey of the Isle of man — Prof. 

 W. A. Herdman. 



To provide assistance for Major G. E. H. Barrett- 

 Hamilton's Expedition to South Georgia to investi- 

 gate the position of the Antarctic whaling industry — 

 Dr. S. F. Harmer. 



To inquire into the choice and style of atlas, 

 textual, and wall maps for school and imiversitv use — 

 Prof. J. L. Myres. 



To consider and report on the standardisation of 

 impact tests — Prof. W. H. Warren. 



The collection, preservation, and sj'stematic regis- 

 tration of photographs of anthropological interest — Sir 

 C. H. Read. 



To conduct archaeological and ethnological re- 

 searches in Crete — Mr. D. G. Hogarth. 



To report on the present state of knowledge of the 

 prehistoric civilisation of the western Mediterranean 

 with a view to future research — Prof. W. Ridgeway. 



To conduct excavations in Easter Island — Dr. A. C. 

 Haddon. 



To report on Palaeolithic sites in the west of Eng- 

 land — Prof. Boyd Dawkins. 



The teaching of anthropology — Sir Richard Temple. 



To excavate early sites in Macedonia — Prof. W. 

 Ridgeway. 



To report on the distribution of Bronze-age imple- 

 ments — Prof. J. L. MjTes. 



To investigate and ascertain the distribution of 

 artificial islands in the lochs of the Highlands of 

 Scotland — Prof. Boj-d Dawkins. 



To co-oj>erate with local committees in excavations 

 on Roman sites in Britain — Prof. W. Ridgewav, 



The dissociation of oxy-haemoglobin at high alti- 

 tudes—Prof. E. H. Starling. 



Colour vision and colour blindness — Prof. E. H. 

 Starling. 



Calorimetric observations on man in health and in 

 febrile conditions — Prof. J. S. Macdonald. 



Further researches on the structure and function of 

 the mammalian heart — Prof. C. S. Sherrington. 



The binocular combination of kinematograph pic- 

 tures of different meaning, and its relation to the 

 binocular combination of simpler perceptions — Dr. 

 C. S. Myers. 



To consider and report on the advisability and the 



