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Eeport of tlie Committee, consistinfr of Mr. E. Bidwell, Professor Boyd 

 Bawkins, Professor Bridge, Mr. A. H. Cocks, Mr. E. de Hamel, Mr. J. E. 

 Harting, Professor Milnes Marshall, Dr. Mfirhead, Dr. Sclater, 

 Canon Tristram, and Mr. W. E. Hughes (^Secretary), appointed for tlie 

 purpose of preparing a Beport on tbe Herds of Wild Cattle in Cliartley 

 Parii and otlier Parks in Great Britain 13o 



Eeport of the Committee, consisting of Profes-sors Schafer (Secretary), 

 MicffAEL Foster, and Laneester and Dr. W. D. Halliburton, ap- 

 pointed for tbe purpose of investigating the Physiology of the I..ymphatic 

 System 1 45 



Second Eeport of the Committee, consisting of General J. T. Walker, 

 General Sir J. H. Lefrot (Eeporter), Professor Sir W. Thomson, Mr. 

 Alexander Bttchan, Mr. J. Y. Buchanan, Mr. John Murray, Dr. J. 

 Eae, Mr. H, W. Bates (Secretary), Captain W. J. Dawson, Dr. A. 

 Selwyn, and Professor C. Caepmael, appointed for the purpose of report- 

 ing upon the Depth of Permanently Frozen Soil in the Polar Eegions, its 

 Geographical Limits and Eelation to the present Poles of greatest cold. 

 Drawn up by General Sir J. H. Lefroy, E.A., K.C.M.G. (Eeporter) 152 



Eeport of the Committee, consisting of the Eev. Canon Carter, the Eev. 

 H. B. George, Sir Douglas Galton, Professor Bonney, Mr. A. G. 

 Veenon Harcouet, Professor T. McKenny Hughes, the Eev. H. W. 

 Watson, the Eev. E. F. M. McCarthy, the Eev. A. E. Vabdy, Professor 

 Alfred Newton, the Eev. Canon Tristram, Professor JIoselcy, and Mr. 

 E. G. Eavenstein (Secretary), appointed for the purpose of co-operating 

 with the Eoyal Geographical Society in endeavouring to bring before the 

 authorities of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge the advisability of 

 promoting the study of Geography by establishing special Chaire for the 

 piu'pose 158 



Final Eeport of the Committee, consisting of General J. T. Walker, General 

 Sir H. Lefkoy, Sir William Thomson, Mr. Alex. Buchan, Air. J. Y. 

 Buchanan, Mr. H. W. Bates, and Mr. E. G. Eavenstein (Secretary), 

 appointed for the purpose of taking into consideration the combination of 

 the Ordnance and Admiralty Survey.s, and the production of a Bathy- 

 hypsographical Map of tlie British Island,s 160 



Eeport of the Committee, consisting of Dr. J. H. Gladstone (Secretary), 

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

 John Lubbock, Bart., Dr. H. W. Crosskey, Sir Eichard Temple, Bart, 

 Sir Henry E. Eoscoe, Mr. James Heywood, and Professor N. Stoey 

 Maskelyne, appointed for the purpose of continuing the inquiries relating 

 to the teaching of Science in Elementary Schools 163 



Eeport of the Committee, consisting of Sir John Lubbock, Dr. John Evans, 

 Professor Boyd Dawkins, Dr. Egbert Muneo, Mr. Pengelly, Dr. Henry 

 Hicks, 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 Preliistoric Inhabitants of the country are 

 found. (Drawn up by Mr. James W. Davis) 1(j8 



Report of the Committee, consisting of General Pitt-Eivers, Dr. Beddoe, 

 Professor Flower, Mr. Francis Galton. Dr. E. B. Tylor, and Dr. 

 Gaeson, appointed for the purpose of editing a new Edition of ' Anthropo- 

 logical Notes and Queries,' with authority to distribute gratuitously the 

 unsold copies of the present Edition 172 



Third Eeport of the Committee, con.sisting of Dr. E. B. Tylor^ Dr. G. M. 

 Dawson, General Sir J. H. Lefroy, Dr. Daniel Wilson, Mr. E. 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 173 



