RECOMMENDATIONS ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. IxXV 



Mr. Bloxam be the Secretary, and that the sum of 50L be placed at their 

 disposal for the purpose. 



That Mr. F. Galton, General Pitt-Rivers, Professor Flower, Professor 

 A. Macalister, Mr. P. W. Rudler, Mr. R. Stuart Poole, and Mr. Bloxam 

 be a Committee for the purpose of procuring, with the help of Mr. 

 Flinders Petrie, Racial Photographs from the Ancient Egyptian Pictures 

 and Sculptures ; that Mr. Bloxam be the Secretary, and that the sum of 

 201. be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 



That General Pitt- Rivers, Dr. Beddoe, Professor Flower, Mr. Francis 

 Galton, Dr. E. B. Tylor, and Dr. Garson Ise a Committee for the purpose 

 of editing a new edition of 'Anthropological Notes and Queries,' with 

 authority to distribute gratuitously the unsold copies of the present 

 edition ; that Dr. Garson be the Secretary, and that the. sum of 101. be 

 placed at their disposal for the purpose. 



Not involving Grants of Money. 



That Professor Cayley, Sir William Thomson, Mr. James Glaisher, 

 and Mr. J. W. L. Glaisher (Secretary) be reappointed a Committee for 

 the purpose of calculating certain tables in the Theory of Numbers 

 connected with the divisors of a number. 



That Professor G. H. Darwin and Professor J. C. Adams be reap- 

 pointed a Committee for the Harmonic Analysis of Tidal Observations ; 

 and that Professor Darwin be the Secretary. 



That Professors Everett and Sir William Thomson, Mr. G.J. Symons, 

 Sir A. C. Ramsay, Dr. A. Geikie, Mr. J. Glaisher, Mr. Pengelly, 

 Professor Edward Hull, Professor Prestwich, Dr. C. Le Neve Foster, 

 Professor A. S. Herschel, Professor G. A. Lebour, Mr. A. B. Wynne, 

 Mr. Galloway, Mr. Joseph Dickinson, Mr. G. F. Deacon, Mr. B. Wethered, 

 and Mr. A. Strahan be reappointed a Committee for the purpose of 

 investigating the Rate of Increase of Underground Temperature down- 

 wards in various Localities of Dry Land and under Water ; and that Pro- 

 fessor Everett be the Secretary. 



That Professor Sylvester, Professor Caylej^ and Professor Salmon be 

 reappointed a Committee for the purpose of calculating Tables of the 

 Fundamental Invariants of Algebraic Forms ; and that Professor Cayley 

 be the Secretary. 



That Professors A. Johnson, MacGregor, J. B. Cherriman, and H. T. 

 Bovey and Mr. C. Carpmael be reappointed a Committee for the purpose 

 of promoting Tidal Observations in Canada ; and that Professor Johnson 

 be the Secretary. 



That Mr. John Murray, Professor Schuster, Sir William Thomson, 

 the Abbe Renard, Mr. A. Buchan, the Hon. R. Abercromby, and Dr. M. 

 Grabham be reappointed a Committee for the purpose of investigating 

 the practicability of collecting and identifying Meteoric Dust, and of 

 considering the question of undertaking regular observations in various 

 localities ; and that Mr. John Murray be the Secretary. 



That Professor Sir H. E. Roscoe, Mr. Lockyer, Professors Dewar, 

 Liveing, Schuster, W. N. Hartley, and Wolcott Gibbs, Captain Abney, 

 and Dr. Marshall Watts be a Committee for the purpose of preparing 

 a new series of Wave-length Tables of the Spectra of the Elements ; 

 and that Dr. Marshall Watts be the Secretary. 



That Professors W. A. Tilden and H. E. Armstrong be a Committee 



