RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. xUii 



Patent Laws and their administration is necessary and urgent ; that the dis- 

 cussion which took place indicated the means for effecting such reform ; that 

 the Parliamentary Committee of this Association might be advantageously 

 employed in bringing the subject before Parliament, and that they be re- 

 quested to give their attention to the subject, and to take the necessary steps 

 for the purpose. That Mr. Webster and Mr. Grove be requested to make the 

 communication to the Parliamentary Committee. 



The following recommendation was referred to the Parliamentary Com- 

 mittee: — "That application be made to the Charity Commissioners of Eng- 

 land and Wales to provide sufficient means for the Classification and Con- 

 densation of the Accounts of Charities sent in Annually to the Charity Com- 

 missioners." That Mr. Heywood be requested to communicate with the 

 Parliamentary Committee. 



Involving Applications to Government or Public Institutions. 



That a Committee, consisting of Dr. Robinson, Professor Wheatstone, 

 and Dr. Gladstone, be requested to make application to the Board of Trade 

 for Experiments on the Transmission of Sound Signals during Fogs. 



That it be represented to the Secretary of State for India, that inquiries 

 into Prisons similar to those made by Dr. Mouat on the Prisons of Bengal, 

 as detailed by him from his printed Reports, be instituted in the other Pre- 

 sidencies of India, especially in those of the Punjaub and the North-West 

 Provinces. 



That Dr. Davy, Dr. Smith, and Mr. Miller be a Committee to make a 

 representation in this matter to the Secretary of State for India. 



Communications to be printed entire among the Reports. 



That Dr. Lloyd's Paper, on the Secular Changes of Terrestrial Magnetism 

 and their Connexion with Disturbances, be printed entire in the Sectional 

 Proceedings of the Association. 



That the Report of Drs. Schunck, Smith, and Roscoe, on the Recent Pro- 

 gress and Present Condition of Manufacturing Chemistry in the South 

 Lancashire District, be printed entire among the Reports. 



That Dr. James Hunt's Paper, on the Acclimatization of Man, be printed 

 entire among the Reports. 



That Mr. Charles Atherton's Paper, on Freight as affected by difference 

 of the Dynamic Performance of Steam-Ships, be printed entire among the 

 Reports. 



That Mr. E. J. Reed's Paper, on the Iron-Cased Ships of the British Ad^ 

 miralty, be printed entire in the Sectional Proceedings. 



Synopsis of Grants of Money appropriated to Scientific Purposes by 

 the General Committee at the Manchester Meeting in September 

 1861, with the name of the Member, who alone, or as the First of a 

 Committee, is entitled to draw the Money. 



Kew Observatory. ^ , 



For maintaining the Establishment at Kew 500 



Carried forward £500 



