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EEPOKT 1888. 



1. licceiving Grants of Money — continued. 



Subject for Investigation or Purpose 



Considering the best Methods of 

 Kecording the Direct Intensity 

 of Solar Kadiation. 



Inviting Designs for a good Diffe- 

 rential Gravity Meter in sm3(?r- 

 session of the Pendulum, where- 

 by satisfactory results may be 

 obtained at each station of 

 observation in a few hours 

 instead of the many days over 

 which it is necessary to extend 

 pendulum observations. 



Seasonal Variations in the Tem- 

 peratures of Lakes, Rivers, and 

 Estuaries in Various Parts of 

 the United Kingdom in Co- 

 operation with the Local Socie- 

 ties represented on the Associa- 

 tion. 



Considering the Desirability of 

 introducing a Uniform Nomen- 

 clature for the Fundamental 

 Units of Mechanics and of co- 

 operating with other bodies 

 engaged in similar work. 



The Action of Light on the Hy- 

 dracids of the Halogens in 

 presence of Oxygen. 



The Influence of the Silent Dis- 

 charge of Electricit}- on Oxygen 

 and other gases. 



Inquiring into and reporting on 

 the present Methods adopted 

 for teaching Chemistry. 



Members of the Committee 



Grants 



Chairman. — Professor Stokes. 



Secretartj. — Mr. G. J. Symons. 



Professor Schuster, Mr. G. Johnstone 

 Stoney, Sir H. E. Roscoe, Captain 

 Abney, and Mr. Whipple. 



Chairman. — General J. T. Walker. 



Secretary. — Professor Poynting. 



Sir William Thomson, Sir J. H. 

 Lefroy, General R. Strachey, Pro- 

 fessors A. S. Herschel, G. Chrystal, 

 C. Niven, and A. Schuster, and Mr. 

 C. V. Boys. 



Chairman. — Mr. John Murray. 



Secretary.— Dv. H. E. Mill. 



Professor Chrystal, Dr. A. Buchan, 

 Kev. C. J. Steward, the Hon, R. 

 Abercromby, Mr. J. Y. Buchanan, 

 Mr. David Cunningham, Mr. Isaac 

 Roberts, Professor Fitzgerald, Mr. 

 Sorby, and Mr. Willis Bund. 



Chairman. — Sir K. S. Ball. 



Secretary. — Sir. Culverwell. 



Dr. G. Johnstone Stoney, Professors 

 Everett, Fitzgerald, Hicks, Carey 

 Foster, O. J. Lodge, Poynting, 

 MacGregor, Gencse, W. G. Adams, 

 and Lamb, and Messrs. Baynes, 

 A. Lodge, Fleming, W. N. Shaw, 

 Glazebrook, Hayward, Lant Car- 

 penter, Greenhill, Muir, G. 

 Griffith, and J. Larmor. 



Chairman. — Dr. Russell. 

 Secretary. — Dr. A. Richardson. 

 Captain Abney, and Professors Noel 

 Hartley and W. Ramsay. 



Chairman. — Professor H. M'Leod. 

 Secretary. — W. A. Shenstone. 

 Professor Ramsay and Mr. J. T. 

 Ciindall. 



Chairman. — Dr. AV. J. Russell. 



Secretary. — Professor W. R. Dunstan. 



Sir H. E. Roscoe, Professor H. E. 

 Armstrong, Professor Meldola, Pro- 

 fessor M'Leod, Dr. J. H. Glad- 

 stone, Mr. A. G. Vernon Harcourt, 

 Mr. M. M. Pattison Jluir, Professor 

 Smithells, Mr. W. A. Shenstone, 

 and Mr. G. Stallard. 



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