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RECOMMENDATIONS ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL COMMITTEE AT THE 
Soutnvort Merrtine 1n SepremBer 1883. 
[When Committees are appointed, the Member first named is regarded as the 
Secretary, except there is a specific nomination. ] 
Involving Grants of Money. 
That Professor Crum Brown, Mr. Milne-Home, Mr. John Murray, and 
Mr. Buchan be reappointed a Committee for the purpose of co-operating 
with the Scottish Meteorological Society in making meteorological obser- 
vations on Ben Nevis; that Professor Cram Brown be the Secretary, and 
that the sum of 501. be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 
That Professor G. Carey Foster, Sir William Thomson, Professor 
Ayrton, Professor J. Perry, Professor W. G. Adams, Lord Rayleigh, 
Professor Jenkin, Dr. O. J. Lodge, Dr. John Hopkinson, Dr. A. Muir- 
head, Mr. W. H. Preece, Mr. Herbert Taylor, Professor Everett, Pro- 
fessor Schuster, Sir W. Siemens, Dr. J. A. Fleming, Professor G. F. Fitz- 
gerald, Mr. R. T. Glazebrook, Professor Chrystal, Mr. H. Tomlinson, and 
Professor W. Garnett be reappointed a Committee for the purpose of 
constructing and issuing practical Standards for use in Electrical Measure- 
ments ; that Mr. Glazebrook be the Secretary, and that the sum of 501. 
be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 
That Professor Schuster, Sir William Thomson, Professor H, E. 
Roscoe, Professor A. S. Herschel, Captain W. de W. Abney, Mr. R. H. 
Scott, and Dr. J. H. Gladstone 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 observa- 
tions in various localities ; that Professor Schuster be the Secretary, and 
that the sum of 20/. be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 
That Captain Abney, Professor W. G. Adams, Professor G. C. Foster, 
‘Lord Rayleigh, Mr. Preece, Professor Schuster, Professor Dewar, Mr. A. 
Vernon Harcourt, and Professor Ayrton be reappointed a Committee for 
the purpose of fixing a Standard of White Light; that Captain Abney 
be the Secretary, and that the sum of 20/. be placed at their disposal for 
the purpose. 
That Mr. Robert H. Scott, Mr. J. Norman Lockyer, Professor G. G. 
Stokes, Professor Balfour Stewart, and Mr. G. J. Symons be reappointed 
a Committee for the purpose of co-operating with the Meteorological 
Society of the Mauritius in their proposed publication of Daily Synoptic 
Charts of the Indian Ocean from the year 1861; that Mr. R. H. Scott be 
the Secretary, and that the still unexpended sum of 501. be again placed 
at their disposal for the purpose. 
That Professor Balfour Stewart, Mr. Knox Laughton, Mr. G. J. 
Symons, Mr. R. H. Scott, and Mr. Johnstone Stoney be a Committee 
