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_ Sykes, Col.—Other expenses of Balloon Ascents 
RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. xh 
- Involving Applications to Government or Public Institutions. 
That a Deputation, consisting of Mr. E. Chadwick, C.B., Mr. J. Heywood, 
Mr. Marsh, M.P., Dr. Farr, Mr. Tite, M-P., Mr. 8. Gregson, M.P., and Col. 
Sykes, M.P., be requested to wait upon the Secretary of State for the Home 
Department and the Registrar-General, and represent to them the import- 
ance of haying prepared Mortuary Statistics in respect to Classes and Occupa- 
tions, in such forms as were recommended by the International Statistical 
Congress, or in such other form as will distinguish the Occupations or the 
Classes of those who die. 
That the Committee, consisting of Dr. Robinson, Professor Wheatstone, Dr. 
Gladstone, and Professor Hennessy, which was appointed at Manchester to 
confer as to Experiments on Fog Signals, and to act as a Deputation to the 
Board of Trade, be requested to impress upon the Board the importance of 
_ inquiries on the subject. 
Communications to be printed entire among the Reports. 
That the Extract of Professor De Souza’s Report to the Portuguese 
Government, regarding the Instruments used at Kew Observatory, be printed 
entire in the Reports. 
That Mr. Symons’s Papers on Rainfall be printed entire among the Reports. 
That the Paper by the Astronomer Royal, on the Strains in the interior of 
Beams and Tubular Bridges, be printed entire among the Reports. 
That Mr. Aston’s Paper on Projectiles, with reference to their Penetration, 
be printed entire among the Reports. 
That Mr. W. Fairbairn’s Paper on the Results of some Experiments on 
the Mechanical Properties of Projectiles be printed entire among the Reports. 
Synopsis of Grants of Money appropriated to Scientific Purposes by 
the General Committee at the Cambridge Meeting in October 1862, 
with the name of the Member who alone, or as the First of a Com- 
mittee, is entitled to draw the Money. 
Kew Observatory. 
Maintaining the Establishment of Kew Observatory 
House for the Photoheliograph at Kew.................... 100 
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Mathematics and Physics. 
Williamson, Prof.—Electrical Standards .................. 100 
Williamson, Prof.—For constructing and distributing ditto.... 50 
@eeeykes, Col.—Balloon Ascents ...............0.0000.- eee 200 
Sykes, Col.—Balloon Committee (deficiency) .............. 70 
Beamer Mri MOLCOESE 2. ccs citi Peo Ow eRle dar Dendes 20 
Jenkin, Mr.—Thermo- Electricity 
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