KESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE GENEBAL COMMITTEE. Ixxii 



That the sum of 100?. be placed at the disposal of the Baths Committee of the 

 Bath Corporation to assist in tlie prosecution of further researches in the Roman 

 Baths. 



That Mr. R. E. Baynes and Mr. J. Larmor be requested to draw up a Report on 

 the present state of our knowledge in Thermodynamics, specially with regard to the 

 second law. ^r ^ o 



That Mr W. N. Shaw be requested to continue his Report on the present state of 

 our knowledge in Electrolysis and Electro-chemistry. 



That Mr. P. T. Main be requested to continue his Report on our experimental 

 knowledge of the Properties of Matter with respect to Volume, Pressure, Tempera- 

 ture, and Specific Heat. ^ 



That Mr. Glazebrook be requested to continue his Report on Optics. 



Theorfe*^ Professor J. J. Thomson be requested to continue his Report on Electrical 



Communications ordered to he printed in extenso in the Annual Report 



of the Association. 



Dr. J. Janssen's paper, ' Sur I'application de I'analyse spectrale a la mecaniqu. 

 moleculaire et sur les spectres de I'oxygene.' ^<^^^h^i 



Mr. Stephen Bourne's paper, ' The Use of Index-numbers.' 

 Thew'' ^' ^' ^' ^' ■^"^^'^ ^^^^^' ' ^^^ delation between Sliding Scales and Economic 



Professor H. S. Hele Shaw and Mr. E. Shaw's paper on 'The Friction of Metal 

 t/jils, with the necessary illustrations. 



The Report of the Conference on Lightning Conductors, as far as is desirable. 



Mr. Dalton s paper giving a List of British Mineral Waters. 



The Bibliography of the Lesser Antilles, as an appendix to the Report of the 

 Committee on the Zoology and Botany of the West India Islands. 



Besolutions referred to the^ Council for consideration, and action 



if desirable. 



That the Council be recommended to consider what measures, if any, it might be 

 desirable to take with respect to the apparatus from time to time purchased by funds 

 voted by the Association. •' 



BpfrtlVJ! ^''Tv^ °V^^ Association be requested to urge upon the Corporation of 



fhiJt iu^t^^^ °^^^{i.°? ^^'" ^ ^"'■'^"^ P°^'^°'^ °^ *^^ ^"iq^e Koman Baths at 

 ].Ia k ^' V. ,!> u "'^^"^ *° *''®''" permanent preservation ; and that the part already 

 laid bare should be protected from the weather. F«"'' «*i'^-auy 



nf ItfKr''if*^°'"'°'^ ^^ requested to memorialise her Majesty's Government in favour 

 nnftpf^ !^^ ^ permanent Census Sub-Department, and taking the census of the 

 United Kingdom every five years. 



1888. 



