RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. xlix 
Involving Application to Government. 
That General Sir Andrew Waugh, Sir Arthur Phayre, General G. Balfour, 
General Sir Vincent Eyre, Captain Sherard Osborn, Mr. George Campbell, 
and Dr. Thomas Thomson be a Committee for the purpose of representing to 
the Secretary of State for India the desirability of an exploration being 
made of the district between the Burhampooter, the Upper Irrawaddy, and 
the Yang-tsze-Kiang, with a view to a route being established between the 
navigable parts of those rivers; and that Dr. T. Thomson be the Secretary. 
That application be made to the Admiralty for aid in establishing stations 
in the Orkneys and on the Coast of Ireland, where the actual temperature of 
the sea may be taken either daily or weekly, so as to prove or disprove any 
alteration of temperature presumed to result from the deflection of the Gulf- 
of-Florida Stream ; that Admiral Manners, Admiral Sir EK. Belcher, Admiral 
Ommanney, and Mr. Milne-Home be a Committee to press this matter on the 
Government. 
Communications to be published in extenso in the Annual Report. 
That the communication of Mr. Huggins on the Progress of Spectroscopic 
Discovery be printed in extenso among the Reports, and that he be requested 
to prepare an abstract of the Discourse which he delivered to the British 
Association at its Meeting at Nottingham, and prefix it to the paper 
referred to. 
That Father Secchi’s communication, entitled ‘ Researches in the Spectral 
Analysis of the Stars,” be printed im exvtenso among the Reports. 
That Baron Midler’s paper, “on Changes of the Moon’s Surface,” be 
printed in extenso among the Reports. 
That the Paper by C. W. Siemens, “ On Puddling Iron,” be printed in the 
Reports in eatenso. 
That the word “ Ethnology ” be omitted from the designation of Section E. 
That henceforth the Parliamentary Committee consist of those Members 
of the Council who are likewise Members of one of the two Houses of Par- 
liament. 
That Members and Committees who may be entrusted with sums of money 
for collecting specimens of Natural History be requested to reserve the spe- 
cimens so obtained for distribution by authority of the Association. 
Q 
1868. 
