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 Keport of tlie Committee, consisting of Professor Crum Beown (Secretary), 

 Mr. Mir,NE Home, Mr. John Murray, Lord McLaren, and Mr. Buchan, 

 appointed for the purpose of co-operatino: with the Scottish Meteorological 

 Society in making Meteorological Observations on Ben Nevis M 



Fourth Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor Balfour Stewart 

 (Secretary), Mr. J. Knox Laughton, Mr. G. J. Stmons, Mr. R. H. Scott, 

 and Mr. G. Johnstone Stonet, appointed for the purpose of co-operatiug 

 with Mr. E. J. Lowe in his project of establishing on a permanent and 

 scieni ific basis a Meteorological Observatory near Chepstow 89 



Final Report of the Committee, consisting of Mr. R. H. Scott (Secretary), 

 Mr. J. Norman Lockter, Professor G. G. Stokes, Professor Balfour 

 Stewart, and Mr. G. J. Stmons, appointed in August 1881, and .reappointed 

 in 1882-3 and 4, to co-operate with the ]Meteorological Society of the 

 Mauritius in tlie publication of Daily Synoptic Charts of the Indian Ocean 

 for the year ISGl. (Drawn up by Mr. Robert H. Scott) 40 



Second Report of the Committee, consisting of General J. T. Walker, Sir 

 William Thomson, Sir J. H. Lefrot, General R. Strachet, Professors 

 A. S. IIerschel, G. Chrystal, C. Niven, J. H. Poynting (Secretary), A. 

 Schuster, and G. II. Darwin, and Mr. H. Tomlinson, appointed for 

 the purpose of inviting designs for a good Differential Gravity Meter in 

 supersession of the pendulum, whereby 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 41 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Professors Williamson, Armstrong, 

 Dixon, Tilden, Reinold, J. Perry, O. J. Lodge, Bonney, Stirling, 

 Bower, D'Arcy Thompson, and Milnes Marshall and Messrs. W. II. 

 Preece, Vernon Harcourt, Crookes, Topley, and E. F, J. Love (Secre- 

 tai-y), appointed for the purpose of considering the desirability of combined 

 action for the purpose of Translation of Foreign Memoirs and for reporting 

 thereon 41 



R-eport of a Committee, consisting of Professors MoLeod and Ramsay and 

 Messrs. J. T. Cundall and W. A. Shenstone (Secretary), appointed to 

 further investigate the Action of the Silent Discharge of Electricity on 

 Oxygen and other Gases 42 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Professors Tilden and W. Chandler 

 Roberts- Austen and Mr. 'i'. Turner (Secretary), appointed for the purpose 

 of investigating the Influence of Silicon on the Properties of Steel. (Drawn 

 up by Mr. T. Turner) 43 



Third Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor G. Forbes (Secretary), 

 Captain Aeney, Dr. J. Hopkinson, Professor W.G.Adams, Professor G. C. 

 Foster, Lord Rayleigh, Mr. Preece, Professor Schuster, Professor Dewar, 

 Mr. A. Vernon Harcourt, Professor Ayrton, Sir James Douglass, and 

 Mr. II. B. Dixon, appointed for the purpose of reporting on Standards of 

 Light 47 



Third Report of the Committee, consisting of Professors Ramsat, Tilden, 

 Marshall, and W. L. Goodwin (Secretary), appointed for the purpose of 

 investigating certain Physical Constants of Solution, especially the Expan- 

 sion of Saline Solutions 4s 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor Tilden, Professor Ramsat, 

 and Dr. W. W. J. Nicol (Secretary), appointed for the purpose of inves- 

 tigating the Nature of Solution •'j.l 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Professors Tilden, McLeod, Picker- 

 ing, and Ramsay and Drs. Young, A. R. Leeds, and Nicol (Secretary), 

 appointed for the purpose of reporting on the Bibliography of Solution 57 



