Ixix 



Recommendations adopted by the General Committee at the 

 Montreal Mketing in August and Septkmher 1884. 



[When Committers are appointed, the Alemlier tirsl named is regarded as the 

 Secretary, except there is a specific nomination.] 



Involving Grants of Money. 



That Professor Balfour Stewart (Secretary), ]\Ir. Knox Laugliton, Mr. 

 G. J. Synions, Mr. R. H. Scott, and Mr. Johnstone Stoney be reappointed 

 a Committee, with power to add to their number, for tlie purpose of co- 

 operating with Mr. E. J. Lowe iu his project of establishing a Meteoro- 

 logical Observatory near Chepstow on a permanent and scientific basis, 

 and that the unexpended sum of 25^. be again placed at their disposal 

 for the purpose. 



That Mr. Robert H. Scott, Mr. J. Norman Lockye- Professor G. G. 

 Stokes, Professor Balfour Stewart, and Mr. G. J. Symons be reappointed 

 a Committee for the purpose of co-operating with the Meteorological 

 Society of the Mauritius in their proposed publication of Daily Syno^itic 

 Charts of the Indian Ocean from the year 18G1 ; that Mr. R. H. Scott be 

 the Secretary, and that the still unexpended sum of iiQl. be again placed 

 at their disposal for the purpose. 



That Mr. James N. Shoolbred and Sir W. Thomson be reappointed 

 a Committee for the purpose of reducing and tabulating the Tidal Obser- 

 vations in tlie English Channel made with the Dover Tide-gauge, and of 

 connecting them with observations made on the French coast ; that Mr. 

 Slioolbred be the Secretary, and that the sum of 10/. bo placed at their 

 disposal for the purpose. 



That Professor Cayley, Professor G. G. Stokes, Sir William Thomson, 

 Mr. James Glaisher, and Mr. J. W. L. Glaisher be reappointed a Com- 

 mittee for the purpose of calculating certain tables in the Theory of 

 Numbers, connected with the divisors of a number ; that INIr. J. W. Ji. 

 Glaisher be the Secretary, and that the sum of 100/. be placed at their 

 disposal for the purpose. 



That Professor Crum Brown, Mr. Milne-Holme, !Mr. John Murray, 

 and ]\Ir. Bnchan be reappointed a Committee for the purpose of co- 

 operating with the Scottish IMeteorological Society, in making meteoro- 

 logical observations on Ben Nevis ; that Professor Crum Brown bo the 

 Secretary, and that the sum of 50/. be placed at their disposal for the 

 purpose. 



That Professor Schuster, Professor Balfour Stewart, Professor Stokes, 

 ^[r. G. Johnstone Stoney, Professor Sir H. E. Roscoe, Captain Abuey, and 

 Mr. G. J. Symons be reappointed a Committee for the purposo of con- 

 sidering oho best methods of recording the direct intensity of Solar Radia- 

 tion ; tliat Professor Schuster be the Secretary, and that the sum of "JO/, 

 be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 



