Ixii REPORT — 1870. 



Whit-wortli, Bart., Mr. Jolin. Penn, Mr. F. J. Bramwell, Mr. Hugh Mason, 

 Mr. Samuel Eigby, Mr. Thomas Schofield, Mr. Charles P. Beyer, Mr. T. 

 Webster, Q.C., Mr. Lavingtou E. Fletcher. 



That the Committee of Sectiou D (Biology) be requested to dra-vv up a state- 

 ment of their y'levi's xipon Physiological Experiments in their various bearings, 

 and that this document be circulated among the Members of the Association. 



That the said Committee be further requested to consider from time to time 

 whether any ste])s can be taken by them, or by the Association, -which wiU 

 tend to reduce to its minimum, the suffering entailed by legitimate physiolo- 

 gical inquiries ; or any which will have the effect of employing the influence of 

 this Association in the discouragement of experiments which are not clearly 

 legitimate on live animals. 



The following resolution subsequently passed by the Committee of Section 

 D (Biology) was adopted : 



That the following gentlemen be appointed a Committee for the purpose of 

 carrying out the suggestion on the question of Physiological Experiments 

 made by the General Committee, — Professor KoUeston, Professor Lawson, 

 Professor Balfour, Dr. Gamgee, Professor M. Foster, Professor Humphry, 

 Professor "W. H. Flower, Professor Sanderson, Professor Macalister, and Pro- 

 fessor Ecdfern ; that Professor Rolleston be the Secretary, and that they be 

 requested to report to the General Committee. 



Involving Applications to Government. 



That Sir E,. I. Murchison, Bart., Sir Charles Lyell, Bart., Mr. Findlay, 

 and Adm. Sir John D. Hay, be a Committee for the purpose of bringing to 

 the notice of the Commissioners of the Admiralty the importance of revising 

 the Survey of the "West Coast of South America, with a view to ascertaining 

 what changes have taken place in the levels since the recent great earth- 

 quakes on that coast ; that Mr. Clements Markham be the Secretary. 



That Prof. Jevons, Mr. E. Dudley Baxter, Sir John Bowring, Mr. J. T. 

 Danson, Mr. James Heywood, Dr. W. B. Hodgson, and Professor Waley, be 

 a Committee for the purpose of urging upon Her Majesty's Government the 

 expediency of arranging and tabulating the results of the approaching Census 

 in the three several parts of the United Kingdom in such a manner as to 

 admit of ready and effective comparison ; that Mr. Edmund Macrory be the 

 Secretary. 



Communications to he jjrinted in extenso in the Annual Report of 



the Association. 



That Professor Cajdey's papers (1) " On In- and Circumscribed Triangles," 

 and (2) " On the Correspondence of Lines and Points in Space," be printed 

 iti extenso in the Proceedings. 



That the paper by Dr. Leith Adams on. " Xewly discovered Species of Ele- 

 phants," be printed in extenso in the Eeport. 



That the paper on " Ashton and Storey's Steampower Meter," bo printed 

 in extenso in the Transactions. 



That owing to the great length and consequent cost of printing the tabular 

 catalogue of Meteors presented by the Committee on Luminous Meteors, that 

 part of their Eeport bo not printed. 



