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cess may be derived from the interesting fact, disclosed in the able Report 

 of the Committee appointed by the Council of the Association to consider this 

 subject, that some of the boys at Harrow have formed themselves into a 

 voluntary Association for the piu'suit of Science. 



Your Committee have communicated to the Lord Chancellor the Reports of 

 the Committee on Scientific Evidence in Courts of Law ; and his Lordship 

 has promised to consider the subject during the recess. 



The Chairman of your Committee has also lately been in communication 

 with the President of the Board of Trade, with the object of prevailing 

 on the Government to amend the unsatisfactory provisions now in force, 

 under the authority of the Merchant Shipping Act, for securing the proper 

 adjustment of the Compasses of the iron-built ships of the Mercantile Marine. 



This measui'e was strongly and ably advocated by the President and 

 Council of the Royal Society, in a correspondence which passed between 

 them and the Board of Trade in 1865, but hitherto without success. 



Wrotteslet, Chairman. 

 3l3t August, 1867. 



Recommendations adopted by the General Committee at the Dundee 

 Meeting in September 1867. 



[When Committeea are appointed, the Member first named is regarded as the Secretary, 

 except there is a specific nomination.] 



Involving Grants of Money. 



That the sum of ,£600 be placed at the disposal of the Council for main- 

 taining the Establishment of the Kew Observatory. 



That the Lunar Committee be reappointed, and consist of Mr. J. Glaisher, 

 Lord Rosse, Lord Wrottesley, Sir J. Herschel, Bart., Professor Phillips, Rev. 

 C. Pritchard, Mr. W. Huggins, Mr. W. De la Rue, Mr. C. Brooke, Rev. T. W. 

 Webb, Mr. J. N. Lockyer, and Mr. W. R. Birt ; and that the sum of ^120 

 be placed at their disposal. 



That Dr. Joule, Sir W. Thomson, Professor Tait, Mr. Balfour Stewart, and 

 Professor G. C. Poster be a Committee for the purpose of executing a re- 

 measurement of the Dynamical Equivalent of Heat ; that Professor Foster 

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

 purpose. 



That the Committee for reporting on the Rainfall of the British Isles, con- 

 sisting of Mr. Glaisher, Lord Wrottesley, Professor Phillips, Mr. G. J. Symons, 

 Mr. J. E. Bateman, Mr. R. W. Mylne, and Mr. T. Hawksley, be reappointed ; 

 that Mr. G. J. Symons be the Secretary, and that the sum of ^£50 be placed 

 at their disposal. 



That the Balloon Committee, oonsistiag of Colonel Sykes, Mr. Airy, 

 Lord Wrottesley, Sir David Brewster, Sir J. Herschel, Bart., Dr. Robinson, 

 Mr. Fairbairn, Dr. TyndaU, Dr. W. A. Miller, and Mr. Glaisher, be reap- 

 pointed for the purpose of ascents, and a further reduction of the observa- 

 tions ; and that .£50 (remaining undrawn from the last grant) be placed at 

 their disposal. 



That a Committee, consisting of Sir W. Thomson, the Astronomer Royal, 

 the Presidents of the Royal and Astronomical Societies, Lord Wrottesley, 

 Mr. W. De la Rue, Professor Stokes, Professor Adams, Professor Price, Pro- 



