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 Chester for the purpose of obtaining (with the consent of the Master and 

 Brethren of the Trinity House and the Commissioners of Northern and 

 Irish Lights) observations on the Migration of Birds at Lighthouses and 

 Lightvessels, and of reporting on the same 146 



Ileport of the Committee, consisting of Professor W. 0. Williamson and 

 Mr. W. Cash, appointed for the purpose of investisrating the Flora of the 

 Carboniferous Rocks of Lancashire and West Yorkshire. (Drawn up by 

 Professor W. C. Williamson) 150 



Ileport of the Committee, consisting of Professor Rat Lankestek, Mr. P. L. 

 ScLATER, Professor M. Foster, Mr. A. Sedgwick, Professor A. M. Mar- 

 shall, Professor A. C. IIaddon, Pi-ofessor Moseley, and Mr. Perct 

 Sladen (Secretary), appointed for the purpose of arranging for the occu- 

 pation of a Table at the Zoological Station at Naples 150 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Dr. J. H. Gladstone (Secretaiy), 

 Professor Armstrong, Mr. Stephen Bourne, Miss Ltdia Becker, Sir 

 John Litbbock, Bart., Dr. H. W. Orosskey, Sir Richard Temple, Bart, 

 Sir Henry E. Roscoe, Mr. James Heywood, and Professor N. Story 

 Maskelyne, appointed for the purpose of continuing the inquiries relating 

 to the teaching of .Science in Elementary Schools 164 



Sixth Report of the Committee, consisting of Mr. R. Etheridge, Dr. H. 

 Woodward, and Professor T. Rupert Jones (Secretary), on the Fossil 

 Phyllopoda of the Palaeozoic Rocks 173 



Second Report of the Committee, consisting of Mr. S. Bourne, Professor F. 

 Y. Edgeworth (Secretary), Professor II. S. Foxwell, Mr. Robert Gipfen, 

 Professor Alfred Marshall, Mr. J. B. JMartin, Professor J. S. Nicholson, 

 Mr. R. H. Inglis Palgrate, and Professor II. Sidgwick, appointed for 

 the purpose of investigating the best method of ascertaining and measur- 

 ing Variations in the Value of the Monetary Standard. (Drawn up by Mr. 

 Giffen) 181 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Mr. S. Bourne, Professor F. Y. 

 Edgeworth (Secretary), Professor II. S. Foxwell, Mr. Robert Giffen, 

 Professor Alfred Marshall, Mr. J. B. Martin, Professor J. S. Nicholson, 

 and Mr. R. 11 Inglis Palgraye, appointed for the purpose of inquiring and 

 reporting as to the Statistical Data available for determining the amount of 

 the Precious Metals in use as Money in the primipal Countries, the chief 

 forms in which the Money is employed, and the amount annually-used in 

 the Arts. (Drawn up by the Secretary) 219 



Fourth Report of the Committee, consisting of Dr. E. B. Tylor, Dr. G. M. 

 Dawson, General Sir J. II. Lefroy, Dr. Daniel Wilson, Mr. R. G. 

 Haliburton, and Mr. George W. Bloxam (Secretary), appointed for 

 the purpose of investigating and publishing reports on the physical cha- 

 racters, languages, and industrial and social condition of the North- Western 

 Tribes of the Dominion of Canada 233 



Report of the Corresponding Societies Committee, consisting of Mr. Francis 

 Galton (Chairman), Professor A. W. Williamson, Sir Douglas Galton, 

 Professor Boyd Dawkins, Sir Rawson Rawson, Dr. J. Q. Garson, Dr. J. 

 Evans, Mr. J. Hopkinson, Professor R. Meldola (Secretary), Mr. W. 

 Whitaker, Mr. G. J. Stmons, General Pitt-Rivers, Mr. W. Toplet, 

 Mr. H. G. Fordham, and Mr. William White 255 



Second Report of the Committee, consisting of Sir John Lubbock, Dr. John 

 Evans, Professor Boyd Dawkins, Dr. Robert Munro, Mr. Pengelly, Dr. 

 Henry Hicks, Professor Meldola, Dr. Muirhead, and Mr. James W. 

 Davis, appointed for the purpose of ascertaining and recording the localities 

 in the British Islands in which evidences of the existence of Prehistoric 

 Inhabitants of the country are found. (Drawn up by James W. Davis) ... 289 



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