KECOMMENDATIONS ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. lxXV 



Dr. Gwyn Jeffreys' paper, entitled ' The Concordance of the Mollusca 

 inhabiting both sides of the North Atlantic' 



Professor Asa Gray's paper, entitled ' Remarks on the Characteristic 

 Features of North American Vegetation.' 



Professor Thurston's paper ' On the Theory of the Steam-engine.' 



Sir James Douglass's paper ' On Improvements in Coast Signals,' 

 with such diagrams as may be found indispensable. 



Mr. J. M. Wilson's paper ' On American Permanent Way,' with the 

 necessary diagrams. 



Resolutions referred to the Council for Consideration, and Action if 



desirable. 



That the Council of the Association be requested to' communicate 

 with the Government of the Dominion of Canada in order (1) to call the 

 attention of the Government to the absence of trustworthy information 

 concerning the tides of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the adjoining 

 Atlantic coast, and to the dangers which thence arise to the navigation ; 

 (2) to urge upon the Government the importance of obtaining accurate 

 and systematic tidal observations, and of tabulating and reducing the 

 results by the scientific methods elaborated by Committees of the 

 Association ; and (3) to suggest the immediate establishment of a sufficient 

 series of observing stations on the coast of the Dominion. 



That the Council be requested to examine the feasibility of instituting 

 a scheme for promoting an International Scientific Congress, to meet at 

 intervals in different countries, and to report thereon to the General 

 Committee at the next meeting of the Association. 



That the attention of the Council be drawn to the advisability of 

 communicating with the Admiralty for the purpose of urging on them 

 the importance of the Employment of the Harmonic Analysis in the 

 Reduction of Admiralty Tidal Observations. 



That the Council memorialise the Canadian Government as to the 

 nrgent necessity of encouraging investigation and publication of reports 

 with respect to the physical characters, languages, social, industrial, and 

 artistic condition of the native tribes of the Dominion. 



That, in the event of that part of the Report of the Council concerning 

 ■Corresponding Societies being accepted by the General Committee at their 

 next meeting, the Council be empowered to form the Committee therein 

 mentioned (see Report, Corresponding Societies, Section 3). 



