RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. xliU 



Applications for Reports and Researches not involving Grants 



of Money. 



That Professor Stokes be requested to continue his Eeport on Physical 

 Optics. 



That Professor Smith be requested to continue and conclude his Eeport on 

 the Theory of Numbers. 



That Professor "Wanklyn be requested to continue his Research on the 

 Hexylic Compounds. 



That the Committee on Scientific Evidence in Courts of Law, consisting 

 of the Rev. "W. Y. Harcourt, Professor "Williamson, TheRight Hon. J. Napier, 

 Mr. W. Tite, Professor Christison, Mr. James Heywood, Mr. J. P. Bateman, 

 Mr. Thomas Webster, Sir Benjamin Brodie, Bart., and Professor "W. A. 

 Miller (with power to add to their number) be reappointed ; and that Pro- 

 fessor "Williamson be the Secretary. 



That Dr. Paul be requested to continue his Report on the Application of 

 Chemistry to Geology. 



That Dr. Baker Edwards be requested to continue his Research on the 

 Alkaloidal Principles of the Calabar Bean. 



That Mr. J. F. Spencer, not having been able to'complete his Report " On 

 the different modes of estimating the nominal horse-power of Marine En- 

 gines, with a view of securing a uniform system," be requested to continue 

 his labours, and Report at the next Meeting. 



That the Gun-Cotton Committee, consisting of Mr. Fairbairn, Mr. Joseph 

 "Whitworth, Mr. James Nasmyth, Mr. J. Scott Russell, Mr. John Anderson, 

 Sir William G. Armstrong, Dr. Gladstone, Professor YV. A. Miller, Dr. Frank- 

 land, and Mr. Abel, be reappointed and requested to continue their Report. 



Involving Application to Government. 



That Sir Roderick Murchison, Admiral R. Collinson, Admiral Ommanney, 

 and Mr. C. R. Markham be a Committee for the purpose of representing to 

 Her Majesty's Government the advantage to several branches of Science 

 that would be derived from the ^exploration of the unknown region around 

 the North Pole. 



Communications to be printed in extenso. 



That the Addresses of the Presidents of the Sections be printed in extenso 

 in the Transactions. 



That the Paper read by Mr. Follett Osier on September 11, "On the 

 Horary and Diurnal Variations in the Motion of the Air," with Diagrams 

 illustrating the same, be printed in extenso in the Reports of the Asso- 

 ciation. • 



That Mr. Bessemer's Paper " On the Manufacture of Cast Steel, its pro- 

 gress and employment as a substitute for "Wrought Don," be printed in extenso 

 in the Transactions of the Sections. 



That the title of Section D be changed to Biology, and that the Council be 

 charged with making the requisite arrangements. 



The Committee unanimously recommend that for the word " Subsection " 

 in the third paragraph of the business of Sections the word " Department " 

 be substituted. 



