Ixxiv REPORT 1871. 



That it is desirable that the British Association should urge upon the 

 Government of India the importance for navigation and other practical pur- 

 poses, and for science, of making accurate and continued observations on the 

 Tides at several points on the coast of India. 



That the Council of the Association be requested to take such steps as to 

 them may seem most expedient in support of a proposal, made by Dr. Buys 

 Ballot, to establish a telegraphic meteorological station at the Azores. 



That the Council be requested to take into consideration the desirability of 

 the publication of a periodic record of advances made in the various branches 

 of science represented by the British Association. 



That the CouncU of this Association be requested to take such steps as may 

 appear to them desirable "nith reference to the arrangement now in contem- 

 plation to establish " leaving Examinations," and to report to the Association 

 on the present position of science-teaching in the public and first-grade 

 schools. 



That the Council be requested to take such steps as they deem wisest in 

 order to promote the introduction of scientific instruction into the elementary 

 schools throughout the countrj'-. 



Synopsis of Ch-ants of Money appropriated to Scientific Purposes by 

 the General Committee at the Edinbm-yh Meeting in August 1871. 

 The names of the Members who would be entitled to call on the 

 General Treasurer for the respective Grants are prefixed. 



Kew Observatory. 

 The Council. — Maintaining the Establishment of Kew Obser- 



servatory 300 



Mathematics and Physics. 



■ Cayley, Professor. — Mathematical Tables 50 



*Crossley, Mr. — Discussion of Observations of Lunar Objects . . 20 



*Tait, Professor. — Thermal Conductivity of Metals 25 



*Thomsou, Professor Sir W. — Tidal Observations 200 



*Brooke, Mr. — British Eainfall 100 



*Thomson, Sir W. — Underground Temperature 100 



*Glaisher, Mr.— Luminous Meteors 20 



Huggins, Di". — Tables of Inverse "Wave-lengths 20 



Chemistry. 



^Williamson, Prof. A. W. — Eeports of the Progress of Chemistry 100 



. Williamson, Prof. A. W. — Testing Siemens's new Pyrometer . 30 

 . Gladstone, Dr. — Chemical Constitution and Optical Properties 



of Essential Oils 40 



*BrowD, Dr. Crum. — Thermal Equivalent of the Oxides of 



Chlorine 15 



Carried forward ^1020 



* Eeappointed. 



