RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. xii 
That an Account of the Newcastle-on-Tyne Time-gun, by Professor Piazzi 
Smyth, be printed entire among the Reports. 
That the Report on the Metallurgy of the District, by Messrs. Bell, 
Richardson, Sopwith, and Spencer, be printed a ewtenso in the Proceedings of 
the Association. 
That the Report on the Chemical Manufactures of the Northern District, by 
Messrs. J. C. Stevenson, R. C. Clapham, and T. Richardson, be printed zm 
extenso in the Transactions of the Association. 
That the Paper by Messrs. Daglish and Foster, on the Magnesian Lime- 
stone of the County of Durham, be printed in full in the Report. 
That Mr. Palmer’s Paper on Iron Ship-building on the Tyne and the 
neighbouring districts be printed in full in the Transactions. 
That Dr. Allman’s Report on Hydroida be published in extenso, with illus- 
trations, in the Proceedings. 
That an abstract by Dr. Edward Smith of the Report by Civil Medical 
Officers on the nature, growth, and mode of preparation of the various alimen- 
tary articles consumed as food by the industrial and labouring population in 
the several districts of Bengal, be printed entire among the Reports. 
That Mr. C. W. Siemens’s Paper on the Electrification of Gutta Percha be 
printed in extenso. 
That Dr. Akin’s Paper on the Transmutation of Spectral Rays be printed 
in extenso. 
That Professor Airy’s Paper on Steam-Boiler Explosions be printed in 
full in the Transactions. 
That the Address of Sir Roderick Murchison, the President of Section E, 
be printed. 
That the Address of Professor Williamson, President of Section B, be 
printed in ewtenso. 
Synopsis of Grants of Money appropriated to Scientific Purposes by 
the General Committee at the Newcastle Meeting in August and Sep- 
tember 1863, with the name of the Member who alone, or as the 
First of a Committee, is entitled to draw the Money. 
Kew Observatory. 
ini Bagnths 
Maintaining the Establishment of Kew Observatory ........ 600 0 0 
Mathematics and Physics. 
Glaisher, Mr.—Meteors............. 2s eee eee eee ee eens 20 0 0 
Hennessy, Prof.—Vertical Atmospheric Movements ......... 30 0 0 
Symons, Mr.—Rainfall in 1862-63 ......-..---- eee ee eee 20 0 O 
Williamson, Prof.—Electrical Standards ..............+--. 100 0 0 
Griffith, Mr—Transmutation of Spectral Rays ............ 45 0 0 
Sykes, Col—Balloon Ascents ........ esses ee eereennnes 200 0 0 
