xl REPORT—1862. 
authorized to distribute gratuitously provisional Standards of Electrical Re- 
sistance, should it appear to them advantageous to do so; and that the sum 
of £50 be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 
That as all the Balloon Observations hitherto made under the authority of 
the British Association (owing to unavoidable circumstances) have been con- 
fined to the autumnal period of the year, these operations should be repeated 
at other periods of the year, especially during the east winds of spring, with 
a view to test the normal character of the observations already made ; 
That Colonel Sykes, Professor Airy, Lord Wrottesley, Sir D. Brewster, Sir 
J. Herschel, Dr. Lloyd, Admiral FitzRoy, Dr. Lee, Dr. Robinson, Mr. Gassiot, 
Mr. Glaisher, Dr. Tyndall, Mr. Fairbairn, and Dr. W. A. Miller be a Balloon 
Committee; and that the sum of £200 be placed at their disposal for the 
purpose. 
That the sum of £70 be placed at the disposal of the Balloon Committee, 
to meet the deficiency in the Grant of £200 made at Manchester. 
That a sum not exceeding £25, the amount of expenses necessarily in- 
curred by Mr. Glaisher in the prosecution of the Balloon experiments, be 
repaid to him. 
That the Committee on Luminous Meteors and Aérolites, consisting of 
Mr. Glaisher, Mr. R. P. Greg, Mr. E. W. Brayley, and Mr. Alexander Her- 
schel, be reappointed ; and that the sum of £20 be placed at their disposal for 
the purpose. 
That Mr. Fleeming Jenkin be requested to continue his Report on Thermo- 
Electrical Experiments ; and that the sum of £15 (being the balance of the 
Grant made to him last year) be placed at his disposal for the purpose. 
That the Committee, consisting of Professor Hennessy, Admiral FitzRoy, 
and Mr. Glaisher, be requested to continue their inquiries relative to the con- 
nexion of Vertical Movements of the Atmosphere with Storms ; and that the 
sum of £20 be placed at their disposal forthe purpose. 
That Dr. Matthiessen be requested to continue his Experiments on Alloys ; 
and that the sum of £20 be placed at his disposal for the purpose. 
That Dr. A. Dupré be requested to continue his Experiments upon the 
action of Reagents on Carbon under Pressure; and that the sum of £10 be 
placed at his disposal for the purpose. 
That the Balance of Grant of £8 made at the Manchester Meeting to Mr. 
Alphonse Gages, of Dublin, be placed at the disposal of that gentleman. 
That the Committee, consisting of Mr. R. H. Scott, Sir Richard Griffith, 
and the Rev. Prof. Haughton, be requested to complete their Report on the 
Chemical and Mineralogical Composition of the Granites of Donegal and the 
associated Rocks; and that the sum of £5 be placed at their disposal for the 
purpose. 
That Mr. H. C. Sorby and Mr. C. H. B. Hambly be a Committee to make 
Experiments on the Fusion and Slow Cooling of various Igneous Rocks ; and 
that the sum of £30 be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 
That Professor Huxley and Sir Philip de Grey Egerton be a Committee to 
aid Mr. Molyneux in his Researches into the Characters and Distribution of 
the Organic Remains of the North Staffordshire Coal-field ; and that the sum 
of £20 be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 
That Mr. Mallet be requested to conduct Experiments to ascertain the 
Temperatures of the Volcanic Craters of Vesuvius and of the Temperature 
and Issuing Velocity of the Steam evolved at the Mouths,—the Experiments, 
if possible, to be extended to other Volcanic Vents in the Mediterranean 
Basin ; and that the sum of £100 be placed at his disposal for the purpose. 
