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Recommendations adopted by the General Committee at the 

 Montreal Meeting in August and September 1884. 



[When Committees are appointed, the Member first named is regarded as the 

 Secretary, except there is a specific nomination.] 



Involving Grants of Money. 



That Professor Balfour Stewart (Secretary), Mr. Knox Laughton, Mr. 

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

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

 operating with Mr. E. J. Lowe in 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 Lockyer, 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 Synoptic 

 Charts of the Indian Ocean from the year 1861 ; that Mr. R. H. Scott be 

 the Secretary, and that the still unexpended sum of 501. 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 the English Channel made with the Dover Tide-gauge, and of 

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

 Shoolbred be the Secretary, and that the sum of 101. be 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 Mr. J. W. L. 

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

 disposal for the purpose. 



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

 and Mr. Buchan be reappointed a Committee for the purpose of co- 

 operating with the Scottish Meteorological Society, in making meteoro- 

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

 Secretary, and that the sum of 501. be placed at their disposal for the 

 purpose. 



That Professor Schuster, Professor Balfour Stewart, Professor Stokes, 

 Mr. G. Johnstone Stoney, Professor Sir H. E. Roscoe, Captain Abney, and 

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

 sidering the best methods of recording the direct intensity of Solar Kadia- 

 tion ; that Professor Schuster be the Secretary, and that the sum of 201. 

 be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 



