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Committees appointed by the Gteneeal Committee at the 

 Bath Meeting in September 1888. 



1. Receiving Grants of Money. 



Subject for Investigation or Purpose 



The Possibility of Calculating 

 Tables of certain Mathematical 

 Functions, and, if necessary, of 

 taking steps to carry out the 

 calculations, and to publish the 

 results in an accessible form. 



Co-operating with the Scottish 

 Meteorological Society in 

 making Meteorological Observa- 

 tions on Ben Nevis. 



Making Experiments for improv- 

 ing the Construction of Practical 

 Standards for use in Electrical 

 Measurements. 



Considering the subject of Elec- 

 trolysis in its Physical and 

 Chemical Bearings. 



Members of the Committee 



Chairman. — Lord Kayleigh. 



Secretary. — Mr. A. Lodge. 



Sir William Thomson, Professor Cay- 

 ley, Professor B. Price, and Messrs. 

 J. W. L. Glaisher, A. G. Greenhill, 

 and W. M. Hicks. 



Chairman. — Hon. R. Abercromby. 

 Secretary. — Professor Crum Brown. 

 Messrs. Milne-Home, John Murray, 

 and Buchan, and Lord McLaren. 



Chairman. — Professor Carey Foster. 



Secretary. — Mr. R. T. Glazebrook. 



Sir William Thomson, Professor Ayr- 

 ton, Professor J. Perry, Professor 

 W. G. Adams, Lord Rayleigh, Dr. 

 O. J. Lodge, Dr. John Hopkinson, 

 Dr. A. Muirhead, Mr. W. H. 

 Preece, Mr. Herbert Taylor, Pro- 

 fessor Everett, Professor Schuster, 

 Dr. J. A. Fleming, Professor G. 

 F. Fitzgerald, Professor Chrystal, 

 Mr. H. Tomlinson, Professor W. 

 Garnett, Professor J. J. Thomson, 

 Mr. W. N. Shaw, Mr. J. T. Bottom- 

 ley, and Mr. T. C. Fitzpatrick. 



Chairman. — Professor Fitzgerald. 



Secretaries. — Professors Armstrong 

 and O. J. Lodge. 



Professors Sir William Thomson, 

 Lord Rayleigh, J. J. Thomson, 

 Schuster, Poynting, Crum Brown, 

 Ramsay, Frankland, Tilden, Hart- 

 ley, S. P. Thompson, M'Leod, 

 Roberts-Austen, Riicker, Reinold, 

 Carey Foster, and H. B. Dixon, 

 Captain Abney, Drs. Gladstone, 

 Hopkinson, and Fleming', and 

 Messrs. Crookes, Shelford Bidwell, 

 W. N. Shaw, J. Larmor, J. T. 

 Bottomley, R. T. Glazebrook, J. 

 Brown, E. J. Love, and John M. 

 Thomson. 



Grants 



£ 

 10 



50 



100 



20 



