INTRODUCTION. 



IX 



Mr. J. A. Phillips. 



The Right Hon. Lyon Playfair, C.B., 



M.P., F.R.S. 

 Dr. Pole, F.R.S. 

 Professor Prestwich, F.R.S. 

 Professor A. C. Ramsay, LL.D., 



F.R.S. 

 Major-General Sir H. C. Rawlinson, 



K.C.B., F.R.S., President of 



the Royal Geographical Society. 

 The Right Hon. Lord Rayleigh, 



F.R.S. 



Professor A. W. Reinold, M.A. 

 Professor Roscoe, Ph. D., F.R.S, 

 The Right Hon. the Earl of Rosse, 



D.C.L., F.R.S. . 

 Mr. G. W. Royston-Pigott, M.A., 



M.D., F.R.S. 



Mr. J. Scott Russell, F.R.S. 

 Dr. W. J. Russell, F.R.S. 

 Professor W. Rutherford, M.D. 

 Mr. B. Samuelson, M.P. 

 Professor J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 



M.D., F.R.S. 

 Mr. T. Savage, M.A. 

 Mr. R. H. Scott, M.A., F.R.S. 

 Major Seddon, R.E. 

 Professor Shelley. 

 Sir. J. P. Kay-Shuttleworth, Bart. 

 Mr. C. W. Siemens, D.C.L., 



F.R.S. 



Professor H. J. S. Smith, M.A., 



F.R.S. 

 Mr. W. Warington Smyth, M.A., 



F.R.S. 

 Mr. H. C. Sorby, F.R.S., President 



of the Royal Microscopical 



Society. 



Mr. W. Spottiswoode, M.A., Trea- 

 surer Royal Society. 

 Mr. G. R. Stephenson. 

 Professor Balfour Stewart, LL.D., 



F.R.S. 



Dr. W. H. Stone. 

 Major - General Strachey, C.S.I., 



F.R.S. 



Lieut.-Col. Strange, F.R.S. 

 Professor P. G. Tait, M.A. 

 Mr. J. Torr, M.P. 

 Rev. J. F. Twisden, M.A. 

 Professor Tyndall, LL.D., F.R.S. 

 Professor W. C. Unwin, B. Sc. 

 Mr. C.V. Walker, F.R.S., President of 



Society of Telegraphic Engineers. 

 Mr. F. H. Wenham. 

 Sir C. "Wheatstone, F.R.S. (since 



deceased). 



Sir. J. Whitworth, Bart., F.R.S. 

 Professor Williamson, Ph. D., F.R.S. 

 Mr. Bennet Woodcroft, F.R.S. 

 Dr. J. Woolley. 

 Colonel H. Stuart Wortley. 



The first meeting of this Committee was held on the i3th 

 February, 1875; the number of those who were present showing 

 the interest already felt in the subject. The Lord President of 

 the Council, the Duke of Richmond, and the Vice-President, 

 Viscount Sandon, in explaining the objects of the Collection, took 

 occasion to refer to the recommendations of the Royal Commission 

 on Scientific Instruction, with regard to the creation of a Science 

 Museum. 



Their Lordships stated their conviction that the development 

 cf the Educational, and certain other Departments of the South 

 Kensington Museum, and their enlargement into a Museum 



