}xxil REPORT—1885. 
That Professor Crum Brown, Mr. Milne-Home, 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 1001. be placed at their disposal for the 
purpose. : 
That Professors Armstrong, Lodge, and Sir William Thomson, Lord 
Rayleigh, Professors Schuster, Poynting, J. J. Thomson, Fitzgerald, Crum 
Brown, Ramsay, Frankland, Tilden, and Hartley, Captain Abney, Messrs. 
W.N. Shaw, H. B. Dixon, J. T. Bottomley, W. Crookes, and Shelford 
Bidwell, and Dr. Fleming be a Committee for the purpose of considering 
the subject of Electrolysis in its Physical and Chemical bearings; that 
Professor Armstrong be the Chemical Secretary and Professor Lodge the 
Physical Secretary, and that the sum of 201. be placed at their disposal 
for the purpose. 
That Professors McLeod and Ramsay and Mr. W. A. Shenstone be a 
Committee for the further investigation of the Influence of the Silent 
Discharge of Electricity on Oxygen and other gases; that’ Mr. W. A. 
Shenstone be the Secretary, and that the sum of 201. be placed at their 
disposal for the purpose. 
That Professors Williamson, Dewar, Frankland, Crum Brown, Odling, 
and Armstrong, Drs. Hugo Miiller, A. G. Vernon Harcourt, F. R. Japp, 
and H. Forster Morley, and Messrs. C. E. Groves, J. Millar Thomson, V. H. 
Veley, and H. B. Dixon be reappointed a Committee for the purpose of 
drawing up a statement of the varieties of Chemical Names which have 
come into use, for indicating the causes which have led to their adoption, 
and for considering what can be done to bring about some convergence 
of the views on Chemical Nomenclature obtaining among English and 
foreign chemists; that Mr. H. B. Dixon be the Secretary, and that the 
sum of 5/. be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 
That Mr. W. T. Blanford, Professor J. W. Judd, and Messrs. W. Car- 
ruthers, H. Woodward, and J. 8. Gardner be reappointed a Committee 
for the purpose of reporting on the Fossil Plants of the Tertiary and 
Secondary Beds of the United Kingdom; that Mr. J. S. Gardner be the 
Secretary, and that the sum of 20/. be placed at their disposal for the 
purpose. 
That Professor T. McK. Hughes, Dr. H. Hicks, Dr. H. Woodward, 
and Messrs. E. B. Luxmoore, P. Pennant, and Edwin Morgan be a Com- 
mittee for the purpose of exploring the Caves of North Wales; that 
Dr. H. Hicks be the Secretary, and that the sum of 251. be placed at 
their disposal for the purpose. 
That Mr. R. Etheridge, Mr. T. Gray, and Professor John Milne be 
reappointed a Committee for the purpose of investigating the Volcanic 
Phenomena of Japan; that Professor John Milne be the Secretary, and 
that the sum of 50/7. be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 
That Messrs. R. B. Grantham, C. E. De Rance, J. B. Redman, W. 
Topley, W. Whitaker, and J. W. Woodall, Major-General Sir A. Clarke, 
Admiral Sir E. Ommanney, Sir J. N. Douglass, Captain Sir F. J. O. 
Evans, Captain J. Parsons, Captain W. J. L. Wharton, Professor J. 
Prestwich, and Messrs. H. Easton, J. S. Valentine, and L. F. Vernon 
Harcourt be reappointed a Committee for the purpose of inquiring into 
the Rate of Erosion of the Sea-coasts of England and Wales, and the 
Influence of the Artificial Abstraction of Shingle or other Material in that 
