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 Second Report of the Committee, consisting of Mr. W. T. Blahfoed, Professor 

 J. W. JuDD, and Messrs. W. Oarruthees, II. Woodward, and J. S. 

 Gardner (Secretary), appointed for the purpose of reporting on the Fossil 

 Plants of the Tertiai-y and Secondary Beds of the United Kingdom 241 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor McKendkick, Professor 

 Cleland, and Dr. McGregor-Robertson (Secretary), appointed for the 

 purpose of Investigating the Mechanism of the Secretion of Urine 250 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor McKendeick, Professor 

 Struthers, Professor Young, Professor McIntosh, Professor Alletne 

 Nicholson, Professor Cossar Ewart, and Mr. John Mtjrray (Secretary), 

 appointed for the purpose of promoting the establishment of a Marine 

 Biological Station at Granton, Scotland 251 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor Rat Lankester, Mr. P. L. 

 ScLATER, Professor M. Foster, Mr. A. Sedgwick, Professor A. M. Mae- 

 shall, Professor A. C. Haddon, Professor Moseley, and Mr. Percy 

 Sladen (Secretary), appointed for the purpose of arranging for the occu- 

 pation of a Table at the Zoological Station at Naples 254 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Mr. John Cordeaux (Secretary), 

 Professor A. Newton, Mr. J. A. Haevie-Brown, Mr. William Eagle 

 Clarke, Mr. R. M. Barrington, and Mr. A. G. More, appointed for the 

 purpose of obtaining (with the consent of the Master and Brethren of the 

 Trinity House and the Commissioners of Northern and Irish Lights) 

 observations on the Migration of Birds at Lighthouses and Lightvessels, 

 and of reporting on the same 264 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor Cleland, Professor McKen- 

 DRiCK, Professor Ewart, Professor Stirling, Professor Bower, Dr. Cleg- 

 horn, and Professor McIntosh (Secretary), appointed for the purpose 

 of continuing the Researches on Food-Fishes and Invertebrates at the 

 St. Andrews Marine Laboratory 268 



Report of the Committee, consisting of General J. T. Walker, General Sir 

 J. H. Lefeoy, Professor Sir W. Thomson, Mr. Alex. Buchan, Mr. J. Y. 

 Buchanan, Mr. John Murray, Dr. J. Rae, Mr. H. W. Bates (Secretary), 

 Captain W. J. Dawson, Dr. A. Selwyn, and Mr. C. Carpmael, appointed 

 to organise a Systematic Investigation of the Depth of the Permanently 

 Frozen Soil in the Polar Regions, its Geographical Limits and relation to 

 the present Pole of greatest cold 271 



Report of the Committee, consisting of General J. T. Walker, General Sir 

 J. H. Lefeoy, Professor Sir "William Thomson, Mr. Francis Galton, 

 ]\Ir. Alex. Buchan, Mr. J. Y. Buchanan, Dr. John Murray, Mr. H. W. 

 Bates, and Mr. E. G. Ravenstein (Secretary), appointed for the purpose 

 of taking into consideration the Combination of the Ordnance and Admiralty 

 Surveys, and the Production of a Bathy-hypsographical Map of the British 

 Isles 277 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Sir Joseph D. Hooker, Sir George 

 Nares, Mr. John Murray, General J. T. Walker, Admiral Sir Leopold 

 McClintock, Ml-. Clements Markham, and Admiral Sir Er.asmus 

 Ommanney (Secretary), appointed for the purpose of drawing attention to 

 the desirability of further research in the Antarctic Regions 277 



Report of the .Committee, consisting of Dr. J. H. Gladstone (Secretary), 

 Professor Armstrong, Mr. William Shaen, Mr. Stephen Bourne, Miss 

 Lydia Becker, Sir John Lubbock, Bart., Dr. H. W. Crossket, Sir Richard 

 Temple, Bart., Sir Henry E. Roscoe, Mr. James Heywood, and Professor 



