284 REPOET— 1886. 



Me'port of the Committee, consisting of Mr. H. W. Barlow, Sir F. 

 J. Bramwell, Professor J. Thomson, Captain D. G-alton, INIr. B. 

 Baker, Professor W. C. Unwin, Professor A. B. W. Kennedy, Mr. 

 C. Barlow, Mr. A. T. Atchison (Secretary), and Professor H. S. 

 Hele Shaw, for obtaining information ivith reference to the 

 Endurance of Metals imder repeated and varying stresses, and 

 the proper tvorking stresses on Raihvay Bridges and other 

 structures subject to varying loads. 



The Committee have to report that certain special experiments have 

 been undertaken by Sir J. Fowler and Mr. Benjamin Baker. 



As, however, these are not yet complete, and the most recent inves- 

 tigations into the question of the endurance of metals now being carried 

 on under the authority of the German Government have not yet 

 reached such a stage that results can be communicated, the Committee 

 request that they may be reappointed. 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Dr. Garson, Mr. Pengelly, 

 Mr. F. W. EuDLER, and Mr. G. W. Bloxam {Secretary), for 

 investigating the Prehistoric Race in the Greek Islands. 



The Committee beg to report that during the winter they have obtained 

 the services of Mr. Theodore Bent, a gentleman who has devoted much 

 time and attention to the study and investigation of Greek antiquities. 

 Mr. Bent and his wife spent several months in the Grecian Archipelago 

 last winter and spring, and during the time conducted researches for the 

 Committee at places which they visited. The Committee have much 

 satisfaction in expressing their indebtedness to Mr. and Mrs. Bent for 

 the valuable assistance they have rendered under somewhat difficult 

 circumstances. The work they have been able to do has been carried on 

 with the aid of the grant placed at the disposal of the Committee at the 

 Aberdeen Meeting of the Association, but this has been supplemented 

 by Mr. Bent himself, so that more work has been undertaken than would 

 have been possible with the grant alone. The result of excavations 

 in graves on Amorgos, Antiparos, Anaphi, and Astypaltea were similar to 

 those about which Mr. Bent read a paper at the last meeting of the 

 Association, consisting of numerous small marble figures, marble vases, 

 earthenware vases, and obsidian knives of the prehistoric period ; in 

 addition to these, a considerable number of skulls and bones were laid 

 aside to be sent with them, the value of the finds far exceeding the 

 outlay, judging by the price given by the British Museum for the things 

 brought home before by Mr. Bent. In addition to this some slight 

 excavations were made at the Temple of Apollo a.t Anaphi, and some few 

 trifling objects of the nellenic period were found. 



The Committee ask for reappointment with a renewal of the grant. 



