INTRODUCTION, 



BY Minute dated 22nd January, 1875, t' ne Lords of the Com- 

 mittee of Council on. Education approved of a proposal to foim a 

 Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus, which was to include not 

 only apparatus for teaching and for investigation, but also such as 

 possessed historic interest on account of the persons by whom, or 

 the researches in which, it had been employed. Their Lordships 

 then invited some of the leading men of science of the country 

 the Presidents of the learned Societies and others to act on rt 

 Committee to consider the matter, and aid them with their 

 advice. This Committee, to whose exertions the formation of 

 the Collection is so largely due, consisted of 



The Right Hon. the Lord Chancellor. 



Professor F A. Abel, F.R.S., Presi- 

 dent of the Chemical Society. 



The Right Hon. Lord Aberdare, 

 President of the Horticultural 

 Society* 



Capt. W. de W. Abney, R.E. 



Professor H. W. Acland, M.D., 

 F.R.S., President of the Medical 

 Council of the United Kingdom- 

 Professor J. C. Adams, M.A., F.R.S. 



Professor W. G. Adams, M.A., 

 F.R.S. 



Sir G. B. Airy, K.C.B., D.C.L., 

 F.R.S., the Astronomer Royal. 



Dr. G. J. Allman, F.R.S., President 

 of the Linnsean Society. 



Mr. J. Anderson, LL.D., C.E. 



Mr. D. T. Ansted, M.A., F.R.S. 



Professor E. Atkinson, Ph. D 



Professor R. Staweil Ball, LL.D., 



F.R.S. 



Professor W. F. Barrett. 

 Rev. A. Barry, D.D. 

 Mr. W. B. Baskcomb,. 

 Mr. H. Bauerman. 

 Mr. G. Bentham, F.R.S. 

 Mr. Hugh Birley, M.P. 

 Professor Bloxam. 

 Major Bolton. 

 Professor F. A. Bradley,, 

 Mr. F. J. Bramwell, F.R.S. 

 Mr. T. Brassey, M.P. 

 Mr. H. W, Bristow, F.R.S. 

 Mr. C. Brooke, M.A., F.R.S. 

 Mr. G. Busk, F.R.S. 

 Major - General Cameron, C.B., 



F.R.S. 



Dr. W. B. Carpenter, C.B., F.R.S. 

 Mr. C. O. F. Cator. 



