IXX REPOET — 1886. 



Recommendations adopted by the General Committee at the 

 Birmingham Meeting in September 1886. 



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

 Secretary, except there is a specific nomination.] 



Involving Grants of Money. 



That Professors Balfour Stewart, Schuster, and Stokes, Mr. G. John- 

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

 Symons be reappointed a Committee for the purpose of considering the 

 best methods of recording the direct intensity of Solar Radiation ; that 

 Professor Balfour Stewart be the Secretary, and that the sum of 201. be 

 placed at their disposal for the purpose. 



That the Committee consisting of Pi'ofessors Armstrong, Lodge, and 

 Sir William Thomson, Lord Rayleigh, Professors Fitzgerald, J. J. Thom- 

 son, Schuster, Poynting, Crum Brown, Ramsay, Frankland, Tilden, 

 Hartley, S. P. Thompson, McLeod, Roberts-Austen, Riicker, Reinold, 

 and Carey Foster, Captain Abney, Drs. Gladstone, Hopkinson, and 

 Fleming, and Messrs. Crookes, Shelford Bidwell, W. N. Shaw, J. Larmor, 

 J. T. Bottomley, and H. B. Dixon, with the addition of the names of Messrs. 

 R. T. Glazebrook, J. Brown, B. J. Love, and .John M. Thomson, be reap- 

 pointed a Committee for the purpose of considering the subject of Elec- 

 trolysis in its Physical and Chemical bearings ; that Professor Armstrong 

 be the Chemical Secretary and Professor Lodge the Physical Secretary, 

 and that the sum of 50Z. be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 



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

 Mr. Buchan, and Lord McLaren be reappointed a Committee for the 

 purpose of co-operating with the Scottish Meteorological Society in 

 making meteorological observations on Ben Nevis ; that Professor Crum 

 Brown be the Secretary, and that the sum of 751. be placed at their 

 disposal for the purpose. 



That Professor G. Forbes, Captain Abney, Dr. J. Hopkinson, 

 Professor W. G. Adams, Professor G. C. Foster, Lord Rayleigh, Mr. 

 Preece, Professor Schuster, Professor Dewar, Mr. A. Vernon Har- 

 court, Professor Ayrton, Sir James Douglass, and Mr. H. B. Dixon be 

 reappointed a Committee for the purpose of reporting on Standards of 

 Light ; that Professor G. Forbes be the Secretary, and that the sum of 

 lOl be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 



That Professor G. H. Darwin, Sir W. Thomson, and Major Baird be 

 a Committee for the purpose of preparing instructions for the practical 

 work of Tidal Observation ; that Professor Darwin be the Secretary, 

 and that the sum of 151. be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 



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



