RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE GENEIUL COMMITTEE. IxV 



Involving Application to Government. 



That the President of the Association be requested to communicate the 

 Eeport of the Committee appointed by the Council to consider the best means 

 for promoting Scientific Education in Schools, to the President of the Privy 

 Council and to the Parliamentaiy Committee on the part of the Association ; 

 and that the General Officers be authorized to take steps to give publicity to 

 the Report. 



That Sir Bartle Prere, Sir Ai'thur Phayre, Colonel R. Strachey, Colonel 

 Yule, Sir Proby Cautley, Mr. W. Spottiswoode, Dr. J. D. Hooker, and Su* 

 John Lubbock be a Committee for the purpose of representing to the Secre- 

 tary of State for India the great and urgent importance of adopting active 

 measures to obtain reports on the ph^-sical form, manners, customs, &c. of 

 the indigenous population of Lidia, and especially of those tribes which are 

 still in the habit of erectiag Megalithic monuments ; and that Dr. J. D. 

 Hooker be the Secretary. 



That General Sir Andrew S. "VVaugh, Sir Arthur Phayre, General G. 

 Balfour, General Sir Yincent Eyre, Captain Sherard Osborn, Mr. George 

 Campbell, and Dr. Thomas Thomson be a Committee for the purpose of 

 waiting on the Secretary of State for India to rei^resent the desirability of 

 an exploration being made of the district between the Burhampooter, the 

 Upper Irrawaddy, and the Yang-tze-Kiang, with a view to a route being 

 established between the navigable parts of these rivers ; and that Dr. 

 Thomas Thomson be the Secretary. 



That Sir Roderick Murchison, Bart., Admiral Erasmus Ommanney, Ad- 

 miral Collinson, Admiral Sir E. Belcher, Captain Sherard Osborn, Captain 

 AUen Young, and Mr. C. R. Markham be a Committee for the piu-pose of 

 representing to Her Majesty's Government the desirability of their under- 

 taking an exploration of the area around the North Pole ; and that Mr. C. 

 R. Markham be the Secretary. 



Communications to be printed in extenso in the Annual Report of 



the Association. 



That Mr. C. Meldrum's paper, " On the Meteorology of the Mauritius," be 

 printed in extenso among the Reports. 



That Mr. I. Lowthian Bell's paper, " On the present state of the Manu- 

 facture of Iron in Britain, and its position as compared with that of some 

 other countries," be printed in full in the Eeport of the Association. 



That Mr. Mitchell's paper^ " On the Highland Railways," be printed at 

 length amongst the Reports. 



Resolved that Resolutions : — 



(1) Relating to the continuation of Storm Signals, 



(2) The introduction of the knowledge of the Metric Sy.steminto Govern- 



ment Schools, 



(3) Natm-al-History Collections in the British Museum, 



(4) The pollution of rivers, and the preservation of Salmon Fisheries, 



be referred to the Council of the Association. 



1867. e 



