RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. lix 



dard Potential Gauge ; that Professor Fleeming Jenkin be the Secretary, and 

 that the sum of £20 be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 



That Mr. Hockin, Dr. Matthiessen, and Prof. A. W. Williamson be a Com- 

 mittee for the purpose of investigating the best method of measuring Elec- 

 trical Currents and constructing a Standard Electrodynamometer ; that Mr. 

 Hockin be the Secretary, and that the sum of £20 be placed at their disposal 

 for the purpose. 



That it be an instruction to each of the three last-named Committees, that 

 it shall carry out the system adopted by the Electrical Standards Committee, 

 and that these Committees have the use of all instruments hitherto con- 

 structed with the Funds of the Association. 



That Professor A. W. "Williamson, Professor Eraukland, Professor Eoscoe, 

 and Professor OdHng be a Committee for the purpose of superintending the 

 pubHcation of the Monthly Eeports of the Progress of Chemistry by the 

 Chemical Society, and that the sum of .£100 be placed at their disposal for 

 the purpose. 



That Professor A. Crum Erown, Professor Tait, and Mr. Dewar be a Com- 

 mittee for the purpose of carrying on the researches of Mr. Dewar on the 

 Thermal Equivalents of the Oxides of Chlorine, and that the sum of £25 be 

 placed at their disjiosal for the purpose. 



That Sir Charles Lyell, Bart., Professor Phillips, Sir John Lubbock, Bart., 

 Mr. John Evans, Mr. Edward Vivian, Mr. William Pengelly, Mr. George Busk, 

 Mr. W. Boyd Dawkins, and Mr. W. Ayshford Sandford be a Committee for 

 the purpose of continuing the exploration of Kent's Cavern, Torquay ; that 

 Mr. PengeUy be the Secretary, and that the sum of £150 be placed at their 

 disposal for the purpose. 



That Dr. P. M. Duncan and Professor Ansted be a Committee for the 

 purpose of continuing Researches on British Fossil Corals ; that Dr. P. M. 

 Duncan be the Secretary, and that the sum of £25 be placed at their dis- 

 posal for the purpose. 



That the Eev. W. S. Symonds, Mr. Lightbody, and the Eev. J. B. La 

 Touche be a Committee for the purpose of continuing to estimate the quantity 

 of Sedimentary deposits in the river Onny ; that the Eev. J. B. La Touche be 

 the Secretary, and that the sum of £10 be placed at their disposal for the 

 purpose. 



That Mr. W. S. Mitchell, Mr. Henry Woodward, Mr. Eobert Etheridge, 

 Mr. G. Maw, and Mr. W. Carruthers be a Committee for the purpose of con- 

 tinuing to investigate the Leaf-beds of the Lower Bagshot Series of the 

 Hampshire Basin ; that Mr. Mitchell be the Secretary, and that the sum of 

 £20 be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 



That Mr. James Thomson and Professor Harkness be a Committee for the 

 purpose of slicing Fossil Corals, in order to show their structure by means of 

 Photography ; that Mr. Thomson be the Secretary, and that the sum of £20 

 be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 



That Mr. Eobert H. Scott, Dr. J. Hooker, Dr. E. P. Wright, and Sir W. 

 Trevelyan, Bart, bo a Committee for the purpose of exploring the Mesozoic 

 Deposits of Omenak and other Localities in North Greenland ; that Mr. Scott 

 be the Secretary, and that the sum of £50 be placed at their disposal for the 

 purpose. 



That Mr. Henry Woodward, Dr. Duncan, and Mr. Eobert Etheridge be a 

 Committee for the purpose of carrying on researches in the British Fossil 

 Crustacea ; that Mr. Woodward bo the Secretary, and that the sum of £25 

 bo placed at their disposal for the purpose. 



