RECOMMENDATIONS ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. lxv 
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. E. Wethered, 
and Mr. A. Strahan be reappointed a Committee for the purpose of in- 
vestigating the Rate of Increase of Underground Temperature downwards 
in various Localities of Dry Land and under Water; and that Professor 
Everett be the Secretary. 
That Professor Sir William Thomson, Sir W. Siemens, Mr. W. H. 
Barlow, Professor A. W. Williamson, Mr. W. H. Preece, and Mr. J. M. 
Thomson be a Committee for the purpose of promoting arrangements for 
facilitating the use of Weights and Measures in accordance with the per- 
missive clauses of the Weights and Measures Act, 1878; and that 
Mr. J. M. Thomson be the Secretary. 
That Professors Williamson, Dewar, Frankland, Roscoe, Crum Brown, 
Odling, and Armstrong, Messrs. A. G. Vernon Harcourt, J. Millar 
Thomson, H. B. Dixon, and V.H. Veley, and Drs. F. Japp and H. Forster 
Morley be a Committee for the purpose of drawing up a statement of the 
varieties of Chemical Names which have come into use, for indicating the 
causes which have led to their adoption, and for considering what can be 
done to bring about some convergence of the views on Chemical Nomen- 
clature obtaining among English and foreign chemists ; and that Mr. H. B. 
Dixon be the Secretary. 
That Captain Abney, Professor Stokes, and Professor Schuster, with 
the addition of the names of Mr. Lockyer and Dr. Huggins, be reappointed 
a Committee for the purpose of determining the best experimental 
metheds that can be used in observing Total Solar Kclipses ; and that 
Professor Schuster be the Secretary. 
That Professors W. A. Tilden and H. E. Armstrong be a Committee 
for the purpose of investigating Isomeric Naphthaline Derivatives ; and 
that Professor H. E, Armstrong be the Secretary. 
That Professors Dewar and A. W. Williamson, Dr. Marshall Watts, 
Captain Abney, Dr. Stoney, and Professors W. N. Hartley, McLeod, 
Carey Foster, A. K. Huntington, Emerson Reynolds, Reinold, Liveing, 
Lord Rayleigh, and W. Chandler Roberts be a Committee for the pur- 
pose of reporting upon the present state of our knowledge of Spectrum 
Analysis ; and that Professor W. Chandler Roberts be the Secretary. 
That Professor Roscoe, Mr. Lockyer, Professors Dewar, Liveing, 
Schuster, and W. N. Hartley, Captain Abney, and Dr. Marshall Watts be 
a Committee for the purpose of preparing a new series of Wave-lengths 
Tables of the Spectra of the Elements; and that Dr. Marshall Watts be 
the Secretary. 
That Messrs. R. B. Grantham, J. B. Redman, J. W. Woodall, W. 
Whitaker, W. Topley, and ©. E. De Rance be reappointed a Committee 
for the purpose of inquiring into the rate of Erosion of the Sca-coasts 
of England and Wales, and the influence of the artificial abstraction of 
shingle and other material in that action; and that Messrs. Topley and 
De Rance be the Secretaries. 
That Dr. Pye-Smith and Professors de Chaumont, M. Foster, and 
Burdon Sanderson be reappointed a Committee for the purpose of investi- 
gating the Influence of Bodily Exercise on the Elimination of Nitrogen 
{the experiments to be conducted by Mr. North); and that Professor 
aad Sanderson be the Secretary. 
