xlviii report — 1860. 



That the Committee to report on the Rise and Progress of Steam Naviga- 

 tion in the Port of London be reappointed, and that the following gentlemen 

 be requested to serve on it: — Mr. William Smith, C.E. ; Sir John Rennie, 

 F.It.S.; Captain Sir Edward Belcher ; Mr. George Rennie, F.R.S. ; Mr. Henry 

 Wright, Secretary ; with power to add to their number. 



Involving Applications to Government or Public Institutions. 



That the Parliamentary Committee, now consisting of the Duke of Argyll 

 Duke of Devonshire, Earl de Grey, Lord Enniskillen, Lord Harrowby. 

 Lord Rosse, Lord Stanley, Lord Wrottesley, Bishop of Oxford, Sir Philip 

 Egerton, Sir John Packington, be requested to recommend two members of 

 the House of Commons to fill the two vacancies. 



That Sir Roderick I. Murchison, as Trustee of the Association, and Mr. 

 Nassau W. Senior, as President of the Section of Economic Science and Sta- 

 tistics, be a Delegacy for the purpose of attending the International Sta- 

 tistical Congress in London on July 16. 



That the Committee on Steam-ship Performance be requested to commu- 

 nicate with the Parliamentary Committee, for the purpose of obtaining their 

 assistance in accomplishing the objects for which the Committee on Steam- 

 ships was appointed. 



Communications to be printed entire among the Reports. 



That the Communications by the Rev. W. V. Harcourt, on the results of 

 Experiments at the Low Moor Iron Works, be printed entire among the 

 Reports of the Association. 



That Mr. William Fairbairn's Paper, on Experiments to determine the 

 effect of vibratory action and long-con linued changes of load upon Wrought- 

 iron Girders, be printed entire in the Reports of the Association. 



That Admiral Moorsom's Paper, on the Performance of Steam Vessels, 

 be printed entire among the Reports. 



That Mr. Elder's Paper, on a cylindrical spiral boiler, with comparative 

 evaporating power and temperatures of furnaces, Hues and chimneys of 

 various boilers, be printed entire in the Transactions of the Sections, with 

 the necessary diagrams. 



Synopsis of Grants of Money appropriated to Scientific Objects by the 

 General Committee at the Oxford Meeting in June and July 1860, 

 with the name of the Member, who alone, or as the First of a Com- 

 mittee's entitled to draw for the Money. 



Kew Observatory. £ s d 



kew Observatory Establishment 500 



Mathematical and Physical Science, 



Photo-heliographic Observations at Kew 90 



Tvndall and Ball. — Alpine Ascents 10 



Carried forward , t 600 



