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 ing Variations in the Value of the Monetary Standard. (Drawn up by the 

 Secret ary) 247 



Second Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor T. McK. Httghes, 

 Dr. H. Hicks, Dr. H. Woodward, and Messrs. E. B. Lttxmoore, P. P. 

 Pennant, Edwin Morgan, and G. If. Morton, appointed for the purpose 

 of exploring the Cae Gwyn Cave, North Wales. (Drawn up by Dr. H. 

 Hicks, Secretary) 301 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor Sidgwick, Professor Fox- 

 wiOLL, Mr. A. n. D. AcLAND, the Rev. W. Cttnninghah, and Professor 

 MuNRO (Secretary), on the Regulation of Wages by means of Lists in the 

 Cotton Lidustry 303- 



Third Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor Baifottk Stewabt 

 (Secretary), Professor W. G. Adams, Mr. AV. Lant Carpenter, Mr. C. H. 

 (Jarpmael, Mr. W, H. M. Christie (A.stronomer Royal), Professor G. 

 Chrtstal, Staff Commander Creak, Professor G. II. Darwin, Mr. 

 William Ellis, Sir J. H. IjEFROT, Professor S. J. Perrt, Professor 

 Schuster, Sir W. Thomson, and Mr. G. M. Whipple, appointed for the 

 purpose of considering the best means of Comparing and Reducing Magnetic 

 Observations. (Drawn up by Professor Balfouk Stewart) 320' 



Second Report of the Committee, consisting of Professors Armstrong, Lodge, 

 Sir William Thomson, Lord Rayleigh, Fitzgerald, J. J. Thomson, 

 Schuster, Potnting, Crum Brown, Ramsay, Frankland, Tilden, 

 Hartley, S. P. Thompson, McLeod, Roberxs-Austen, Rucker, Reinold, 

 and Carey Foster, ('aptain Abney, Drs. Gladstone, Hopkinson, and 

 Fleming, and Messrs. Crookes, Shelford Bidwell, W. N. Shaw, 

 J. Larmor, J. T. BoTTOMLEY, H. B. Dixon, R. T. Glazebrook, J. Brown, 

 E. .1. Love, and John M. Thomson, for the purpose of considering the 

 subject of Electroly.sis in its Physical and Chemical Bearings. (Edited by 

 Oliver Lodge) 33(? 



Thirteenth Report of the Committee, consisting of Drs. E. Hull and 

 H. W. Crosskey, Sir Douglas Galton, Professors J. Prestwich and 

 G. A. Lebour, and Messrs. .Tames Glaishbr, E. B. Marten, G. H. 

 Morton, W. Pengelly, James Plant, I. Roberts, T. S. Stooke, G. J. 

 Symons, W. Topley, Tylden-Wright, E. Wethered, W. Whitaker, 

 and 0. E. De Range (Secretary), appointed for the purpose of investigating 

 the Circulation of Underground AVaters in the Permeable Formations of 

 England and Wales, and the Quantity and Character of the Water supplied 

 to various Towns and Districts from these Formations. (Drawn up by 

 C. E. De Range, Reporter) .S58 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Dr. H. Woodward, Mr. H. JCeeping, 

 and Mr. J. Starkie Gardner, appointed for the purpose of exploring the 

 Higher Eocene Beds of the Isle of Wight. (By the Secretarv, J. S. 

 Gardner) ..." " 414 



Report of the CJommittee, consisting of Mr. W. H. Barlow, Sir F. J. Bram- 

 well, Profe.'-sor James Thomson, Sir D. Galton, Mr. B. Baker, Professor 

 W. C. Unwin, Professor A. B. W. Ivennedy, Mr. C. Barlow, Professor 

 n. S. Hele Shaw, Professor W. C. Roberts-Austen, and Mr. A. T. 

 Atchison (Secretary), appointed for the purpose of obtaining information 

 with reference to the Endurance of Metals under repeated and varying 

 stresses, and the proper working stresses on Railway Bridges and other 

 structures subject to varying loads 424 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Mr. F. Galton, General Pitt- 

 Rivers, Professor Flower, Professor A. Macalister, Mr. F. W. Rudler, 

 Mr. R. Stuart Poole, and Mr. Bloxam (Secretary), appointed for the pur- 

 pose of procuring, with the help of Mr. Flinders Peteie, Racial Photo- 

 graphs from the Ancient Egyptian Pictures and Sculptures. (Drawn up by 

 Mr. Petkie) .• .". 4a»> 



