RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. xlvii 



chestcr Meeting, a Classified Index to the Transactions of the Association 

 from 1831 to 1860 inclusive; that he be authorized to employ, during this 

 period, an Assistant; and that the sum of £100 be placed at his disposal for 

 the purpose. 



Applications for Reports and Researches. 



That Mr. H. J. S. Smith be requested to continue his Report on the 

 Theory of Numbers. 



That Mr. Cayley be requested to draw up a Report on certain Problems 

 in Higher Dynamics. 



That Mr. B. Stewart be requested to draw up a Report on Prevost's 

 Theory of Exchanges, and its recent extensions. 



That Prof. Stokes be requested to draw up a Report on the Present State 

 and Recent Progress of Physical Optics. 



That Dr. Dickie be requested to draw up a Report on the Flora of Ulster, 

 for the next Meeting of the Association. 



That Dr. Carpenter be requested to draw up a Report on the Minute 

 Structure of Shells. 



That Dr. Michael Foster be requested to report upon the Present State 

 of our Knowledge in reference to Muscular Irritability. 



That Mr. James Oldham be requested to continue his Report on Steam 

 Navigation in the Port of Hull. 



That the Lord Rosse, Dr. Robinson, Professor Phillips, and Mr. W. R. Birt 

 be a Committee for the purpose of making observations on the Moon's sur- 

 face and comparing it with that of the Earth. That Professor Phillips be the 

 Secretary. 



That the Rev. Professor Price, Dr. Whewell, Sir J. Lubbock, Admiral 

 FitzRoy, Sir W. S. Harris, and Rev. Professor Haughton be a Committee foi 

 the purpose of reporting to the next Meeting of the British Association, on 

 the Expediency and best means of making Tidal Observations, with a view 

 to the completion of Dr. Whewell's Essays in prosecution of a full Tidal 

 Exposition. 



That, as it would be highly desirable that the observations on the Magnetic 

 Lines in India should be continued, His Highness The Rajah of Travancore 

 be requested to complete the Survey already commenced by him, through 

 his Astronomer. 



That it is desirable that a Committee be appointed to consider the best 

 mode of effecting the registration and publication of the numerical facts of 

 Chemistry. That the Committee consist of Dr. Frankland, Dr. W. A. Miller, 

 Prof. W. H. Miller, Prof. Brodie, Prof. Williamson, and Dr. Lyon Playfair. 



That the Lords of the Admiralty be moved to authorize some small vessel 

 stationed on the South-East Coast of America to take a convenient oppor- 

 tunity of collecting specimens of the large Vertebrate Fossils from certain 

 localities easy of access between the River Plata and the Straits of 

 Magellan. 



That Sir W. Jardine, Bart., Prof. Owen, Prof. Faraday, and Mr. Andrew 

 Murray be a Committee for the purpose of procuring information as to the 

 best means of conveying Electrical Fishes alive to Europe. That Sir W. 

 Jardine be the Secretary. 



That Mr. William Fairbairn. Mr. J. F. Bateman, and Prof. Thomson be a 

 Committee for the purpose of reporting on Experiments to be made at the 

 Manchester Waterworks on the Gauging of Water ; with power to add to 

 their number. 



