RECORD OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



of the Secretary of State for India, ' for ensuring the continued efficiency of the 



Madras and Bombay Observatories,' but which had not been regarded as a 



the Royal Society. The existing Committee discusses the 



reports and >chemes of work of the Imperial Observatories in India, and 



advi^-s the Secretary of State upon them and generally with regard to the 



fixation of Astronomical and Meteorological Observations in that empire. 



Its functions, however, are not in terms limited to the consideration of Indian 



question*, 



Scientific Relief Committee, appointed for the purpose of administering 

 privately the Scientific Relief Fund which has been formed with the object of 

 aiding such scientific men, or their families, as may through misfortune have 

 In-come in need of pecuniary assistance. The Committee consists of ten Fellows 

 each serving for five years and two retiring annually. Each application for a 

 grant from this Fund must come from the President of one of certain specified 

 scientific societies and may be made in regard to any deserving man of science, 

 whether connected with the Royal Society or not. A short sketch of the 

 history of the Fund is given at p. 183, and the regulations in force for the 

 administration of the Fund will be found in the Year-Book. 



Seismology Committee. This Committee was appointed in July 1902 to 

 consider and advise on the question, referred to the Council by H.M. Govern- 

 ment, of the participation of Great Britain in an International Organization 

 of Seismologies] Observations. It has since been continued for the purpose of 

 taking general cognizance of this department of science and promoting the co- 

 ordination of the work of the various agencies concerned in it. 



So'in'c Committee appointed for the purpose of arranging the invitations to 

 oirees and dinners of the Society and deciding upon the exhibits to be 

 >hown at the soirees. 



Solar Research Committee, appointed in December 1904 as a Standing 

 Committee in response to an invitation from an International Solar Conference 

 held at St. Louis, U.S., in that year, advises the Council on questions arising 

 from time to time in connexion with the triennial meetings and the work of 

 the International Union for Solar Research, such as the establishment and 

 equipment of stations for solar observations in various parts of the world, and 

 MM- co-ordination of their work. 



Sorhij Keticatrli Fund Committee, appointed to administer an endowment left 

 I >y Hen i v ( ' I i f t ( > n Sorby for the promotion of original scientific research. The 

 composition of the Committee and other particulars connected with the Fund 

 it p. 184. 



'/'rojiiriil Diseases Committee. This Committee dates its origin from the 



lf i() " <>f ' ! I'ly < 'ommitt.ee in 1896. It was formed at the request 



of the Colonial Oil rsult of the consideration by the Royal Society of 



. jor Bnice on the Tsetse fiy disease in Zululand to the Governor 



ital and Xululand in December 1H95 and forwarded to the Royal Society. 



