RCOMMENDATIONS OF THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. Ixix 



EBCOlIMEJfLATIONS ADOrXED BX THE GeNBRAL CoJIMIIIEE AT THE EDINBTJReH 



Meeting in Axtgust 1871. 



[When Committees are appointed, the Member first named is regarded as the Secretary, 

 except there is a specific nomination.] 



That in future the division of the Section of Biology into the three Depart- 

 ments of Anatomy and Physiology, Anthropology, and Zoology and Botany 

 shall be recognized in the programme of the Association Meetings, and that 

 the President, two Vice-Presidents, and at least three )Secretaries shall be 

 nominated, and that the Yice-Presidents and Secretaries who shall take 

 charge of the organization of the several Departments shall be designated 

 respectively before the publication of such programme. 



Dr. R. King's motion, " that a Subsection for Ethnology be formed," -s^as 

 rejected. 



That the Apparatus, Instruments, «S;c. mentioned in Appendix III. of the 

 Eeport of the Kew Committee for the past year be transferred to the charge 

 of the Royal Society. 



That the Electrical Apparatus belonging to the British Association, now in 

 possession of the Committee of Electrical Standards, be placed in the Physical 

 Laboratory of Cambridge, in charge of the Professor of Experimental Physics, 

 the apparatus remaining the property of the Association and at the disposal 

 of the Committee. 



[For Regulations relating to Organizing Sectional Proceedings, vide p. xix.] 



Recommendations Involving Grants of Money. 



That the sum of .£300 be placed at the disposal of the Council for main- 

 taining the establishment of the Kew Observatory. 



That Professor Cayley, Professor H. J. S. Smith, Professor Stokes, Sir "W. 

 Thomson, and Mr. J. W. L. Glaisher be a Committee for the purpose of re- 

 porting on Mathematical Tables, which it may be desirable to compute or 

 reprint ; that Mr. J. W. L. Glaisher be the Secretary, and that the sum of 

 e£50 be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 



That Mr. Edward Crossley, Rev. T. W. Webb, and Rev. R. Harley be a 

 Committee for discussing Observations of Lunar Objects suspected of change ; 

 that i^lr. Crossley be the Secretary, and that the sum of .£20 be placed at 

 their disposal for the purpose. 



That Professor Tait, Professor Tyndall, and Dr. Balfour Stewart be a 

 Committee for the purpose of investigating the Thermal Conductivity of 

 Metals ; that Professor Tait be the Secretary, and that the sum of £25 be 

 placed at their disposal for the purpose. 



That the Committee on Tides, consisting of Sir "W. Thomson, Professor J. C. 

 Adams, Professor J. W. M. Rankine, Mr. J. Oldham, Rear-Admiral Richards, 

 and Mr.W. Parkes, be reappointed; that Colonel Walker, F.R.S., Superintendent 

 of the Trigonometrical Survey of India, be added to the Committee ; and that 

 the sum of £200 be placed at their disposal to defray the expenses of calcula- 

 tion during the ensuing year. 



That the Committee for reporting on the Rainfall of the British Isles be 

 reappointed, and that this Committee consist of Mr. Charles Brooke, Mr. 

 Glaisher, Professor Phillips, Mr. G. J. Spnons, Mr. J. F. Bateman, Mr. R. 

 W. Mylne, Mr. T. Hawksley, Professor J. C- Adams, Mr. C. Tomlinson, 



1871. / 



