xHi REPORT — 1861. 



That Professor Phillips be authorized to employ for the ensuing year an 

 Assistant, and that the sum of £100 be placed at his disposal for the purpose. 



Applications /or Reports and Researches not involving Grants 



of Money. 



That Professor G. G. Stokes be again requested to furnish a Report on 

 Physical Optics. 



That Mr. A. Cayley be again requested to furnish a Report on the Recent 

 Progress in the Solution of certain Problems in Dynamics. 



That Mr. Archibald Smith and Mr. F. J. Evans be requested to abstract 

 and report upon the three Reports of the Liverpool Compass Committee, 

 and other recent publications on the same subject. 



That Mr. Johnstone Stoney be requested to report on the Present State 

 of Molecular Physics. 



That Dr. Lloyd, General Sabine, Mr. A. Smith, Mr. G. Johnstone Stoney, 

 Professor Airy, Professor Donkin, Professor W. Thomson, Mr. Cayley, and 

 the Rev. Professor Price be requested to inquire into the adequacy of exist- 

 ing data for carrying into effect the suggestion of Gauss to apply his General 

 -Theory of Magnetism to Magnetic Variations ; and to report on the steps 

 proper to be taken to supply what may still be wanting, and generally on the 

 course to be adopted to carry out Gauss's suggestion. 



That Dr. Grace Calvert be requested to draw up a Report on the Che- 

 mical Composition and Physical Properties of the Wood employed for Naval 

 Construction. 



That Dr. Williamson, Dr. W. A. Miller, Dr. Andrews, Professor Brodie, 

 Professor W. H. Miller, Dr. Lyon Playfair, and Dr. Angus Smith (with 

 power to add to their number) be requested to inquire into the best means 

 of effecting a registration and publication of the Numerical Facts of Che- 

 mistry. 



That Dr. Williamson, Dr. Angus Smith, Dr. Christison, Mr. W. De la Rue, 

 Mr. Grove, Mr. Webster, Mr. Bateman, Rev. W. Vernon Harcourt, Professor 

 Brodie, and Professor W. A. Miller be requested to consider whether any im- 

 provements can be suggested in the present practice respecting scientific 

 evidence, as taken in courts of law, and to report any such suggestions of 

 improvement as may appear practicable to the ensuing Meeting at Cam- 

 bridge ; that the Committee have power to add to their number. 



That Mr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys, Mr. R. MacAndrew, Mr. G. C. Hyndman, 

 Dr. Edwards, Dr. Dickie, Mr. C. L. Stewart, Dr. Collingwood, Dr. Kinahan, 

 Mr. J. S. Worthey, Dr. E. Perceval Wright, Mr. J. Ray Greene, Rev. 

 Thomas Hincks, and Mr. R. D. Darbyshire to act as a General Dredging 

 Committee, with a general superintendence of all other Dredging Com- 

 mittees appointed by the Association. 



That M. Foster, M.D. be reappointed to report upon the Present State of 

 our Knowledge in reference to Muscular Irritability, he having been unable 

 from ill health to prepare it for the present Meeting. 



That Admiral Sir E. Belcher, Sir J. Rennie, Mr. G. Rennie, and Mr. Smith 

 be requested to report on the Rise and Progress of Steam Navigation in 

 the Port of London. 



That Mr. W. Fairbairn, Mr. J. F. Bateman, Professor Thomson, and Mr. 

 J. G. Lynde be requested to report on Experiments to be made at the Man- 

 chester Waterworks on the Gauging of Water; with power to add to their 

 number. 



That in the opinion of the Committee a large and extensive Reform in the 



