46 REPORT — 1870. 



an3 will cause the results of those experiments to be communicated, when 

 complete, to the Institution of Naval Architects, the British Association, and 

 such other Professional bodies as to My Lords may seem desirable. 



I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, 

 (Signed) Yebnon Litshington. 



O. W, MemfieU, Esq., F.E.S., 

 Secretary to the Committee on Stability 6fc. of British Association, 



We are of opinion that it is advisable to await the result of Mr. Froude's 

 experiments before taking any further action in the matter. 



Francis Galton. 

 Gr. P. Bidder. 

 . . . Douglas Galto]?. 



W. J. MAcatroKN Rankine. 

 "NVm. Froude. 

 Charles W. Meerifieid. 

 London, May 1870. 



APPENDIX. 



Communication received from the Institution of Engineers in Scotland, with 

 which is incorporated the Scottish Shipbuilders' Association. 



Report of the Committee on a Communication received from the British 

 Association respecting the Qualities of Ships. 



Your Committee having considered the printed Report of a Committee of 

 the British Association which has been submitted to them by the Council 

 and other information on the same subject, beg leave to report as follows : — 



1. Your Committee approve of the said Report generally, and especially of 

 the parts headed "Proposed Experiments," pages 29 to 81 , and " Recom^ 

 mendatioii of Experiments on Rolling," pages 59 to 63 ; for they consider 

 that such experiments as those therein proposed are required for the practical 

 advancement of the arts of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, as 

 well as for scientific purposes. 



2. Tour Committee agree with the Committee of the British Association 

 that the experiments required are beyond the means either of individuals or 

 of firms, or of Scientific Societies ; and that it is therefore desirable that they 

 should be undertaken by the Government. 



3. Tour Committee therefore recommend that the Council of the Institu- 

 tion of Engineers in Scotland should appoint a deputation, for the purpose of 

 cooperating with the deputation of the Council of the British Association in 

 the application to the Admiralty proposed in the last paragraph of page 31, 

 and in the last paragraph but one of page 62, of the printed Report before 

 mentioned, which paragraphs are as follows : — 



Page 31. — "We therefore recommend that the Council of the British As- 

 sociation should authorize a deputation to apply to the Admiralty to provide 

 for such a set of experiments in the course of the Summer of 1870 ; also, 

 that the Council should appoint a Committee, consisting of three members of 

 the Association, to confer with officers of the Admiralty respecting the detail 

 of the experiments, and that the Admiralty should be requested to give an 

 opportunity to the members of that Committee of taking a share in the ob- 

 servations, in order that they may be enabled to make an independent Re- 

 port upon results." 



Page 62. — " We therefore recommend that the deputation previously 

 mentioned with reference to the experiments on Resistance, be also instructed 



