XXVI LIST OF PLATES. 



LIST OP PLATES. 



PLATES I., II., AND III. 



Illustrating the Report of the Oommittee for Considering the hest means of Com- 

 paring and Reducing Magnetic Observations. 



PLATES IV. AND V. 



Illustrating the Report of the Committee for Constructing and Issuing Practical 

 Standards for use in Electrical Measurements. 



PLATE VI. 



Illustrating the Report of the Committee for the Reduction and Tabulation of 

 Tidal Observations in the English Channel, made with the Dover Tide-gauge, 

 and for connecting them with Observations made on the French Coast. 



PLATE VII. 



Illustrating the Report of the Committee on the Fossil Plants of tlie Tertiary and 

 Secondary Beds of the United Kingdom. 



PLATE VIII. 



Illustrating the Report of the Committee on the Volcanic Phenomena of Japan. 



PLATES IX. AND X. 



Illustrating Professor Hele Shaw and Mr. Edward Shaw's Communication, ' The 

 Sphere and Roller Mechanism for Transmitting Power.' 



PLATE XI. 



Illustrating Professor Asaph Hall's Communication, * Note on the Orbits of 



Satellites.' 



