INTRODUCTION. 



By Minute dated 22nd January 1875, the Lords of the 

 Committee of Council on Education approved of a proposal 

 to form 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 in- 

 vited some of the leading men of science of the country 

 the Presidents of the learned Societies and others to act 

 on a 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., F.R.S. 



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

 E.R.S., President of the Medical 

 Council of the United Kingdom. 



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



Professor W. G. Adams, ALA., 

 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 Linnaan Society. 



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



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



Professor E. Atkinson, Ph.D. 



Professor R. Stawell Ball, LL.D., 

 F.R.S. 



Professor W. F. Barrett, 



Rev. A. Barry, D.D. 



Mr. W. B. Baskcomb. 



Mr. H. Bauerman. 



Mr. G. Benthain, 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. 



Mr. W. Chappell. 



Mr. H. W. Chisholm, Warden of the 



Standards. 

 Lord Alfred Churchill, Chairman of 



Council of Society of Arts. 

 Mr. G. T. Clark. 

 Mr. Latimer Clark. 

 Professor R, Bellamy Clifton, M.A., 



F.R.S. 



Sir Henry Cole, K.C.B. 

 Vice-Admiral Sir R. Collinson, 



K.C.B., Deputy Master of the 



Trinity House. 

 Dr. Debus, F.R.S. 

 Mr. Warren De La Rue, D.C.L., 



F.R.S. 



Mr. G. Dixon, M.P. 

 Professor P. M. Duncan, M.B., 



F.R.S., President of the Geological 



Society. 

 Professor W. T. Thiselton Dyer, 



M.A., B.Sc. 

 Major-General F. Eardley-Wilmot, 



R.A., F.R.S. 



