RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. xlv 



That Captain Noble's paper " On the Penetration of Shot and resistance of 

 Iron-clad Defences " be printed in extenso in the Reports. 



Synopsis of Grants of Money appropriated to Scientific Purposes by 



the General Committee at the Nottingham Meeting in August 

 1866. The names of the Members ivho ivould be entitled to call on 

 the General Treasurer for the respective Chrants are prefixed. 



Kcxu Observatory. £ $. d. 



Maintaining the Establishment of Kew Observatory 600 



Mathematics and Physics. 



Sabine, Lieut.-General. — Instruments for observations in India 200 



Glaisher, Mr. — Lunar Committee 120 



Williamson, Prof.— Electrical Standards 100 



Airy, Mr. — lleduetion of Piimker's Observations (renewed) . . 150 



Glaisher, Mr.— British Rainfall 50 



Sykes, Col. — Balloon Experiments 50 



Glaisher, Mr. — Luminous Meteors 50 



Kew Committee. — Meteorological observations in Palestine . . 50 



Robinson, Dr. — Sound under Water 30 



Geology. 



Mitchell, Mr.— Alum Bay Fossil Leaf-Beds 25 



Lyell, Sir C— Kent's Hole Investigation 100 



Mitchell, Mr.— Bournemouth Fossil Leaf-Beds 30 



Busk, Professor. — Maltese Caverns Elephants 50 



Bate, Mr. C. Spence. — Fossil Crustacea 25 



Wright, Dr. E. P.— Kilkenny Coal-field 25 



Scott, Mr. R. H.— Plant Beds of North Greenland 100 



Phillips, Prof. — Secondary Reptiles 50 



Biology. 



Jeffreys, Mr. — Marine Fauna, Ireland 25 



Jeffreys, Mr.— Dredging West Coast of Shetland 75 



Tristram, Rev. H. B. — Insect Fauna, Palestine 30 



Wright, Dr. E. P. — Coast of North Greenland, Flora and Fauna 75 

 Richardson, Dr. B. W. — Physiological action of the Ethyl and 



Methyl Series 25 



Geography and Ethnology. 



Nicholson, Sir C. — Palestine Exploration 50 



Statistics and Economic Science. 



Bowruig, Sir J. — Metrical Committee 30 



MecJianics, 

 RusseU, Mr. J. Scott. — Analysis of Reports on Steam-ship Per- 

 formance 100 



Fairbairn, Mr.— Manufacture of Iron and Steel 25 



Webster, Mr. — Patent Laws (renewed) 30 



Total 2270 



