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Recommendations adopted by the General Committee at the 

 Manchester Meeting in August and September 1887. 



[WTien Committees are appointed, the Member first named is regarded as the 

 Secretary, except there is a specific nomination.] 



Involvmrj Grants of Money. 



That Sir R. S. Ball, Dr. G. Johnstone Stoney, Professors Everett, 

 Fitzgerald, Hicks, Carey Foster, O. J. Lodge, Ewing, Poynting, Mac- 

 gregor, Genese, W. G. Adams, and Lamb, Messrs. Baynes, A. Lodge, 

 Fleming, W. N. Shaw, Glazebrook, Hayward, Lant Carpenter, Culver- 

 well, and Greenhill, Dr. Muir, and Messrs. G. Griffith and J. Larmor be a 

 Committee for the purpose of considering the desirability of introducing 

 a Uniform Nomenclature for the Fundamental Units of Mechanics, of co- 

 operating -with other bodies engaged in similar work, and of reporting to 

 the next meeting of the Association ; that Mr. E. P. Cnlverwell be the 

 Secretary, and that the sum of 101. be placed at their disposal for the 

 purpose. 



That General J. T. Walker, Sir William Thomson, Sir J. H. Lefroy, 

 General R. Strachey, Professors A. S. Herschel, G. Chrystal, C. Mven, 

 J. H. Poynting, A. Schuster, and Mr. C. V. Boys be a Committee for the 

 purpose of inviting designs for a good Differential Gravity Meter in 

 supersession of the pendulum, whereby satisfactory results may be ob- 

 tained at each station of observation in a few hours instead of the many 

 days over which it is necessary to extend pendulum observations ; that 

 Professor Poynting be the Secretary, and that the sum of 101. be placed 

 at their disposal for the purpose. 



That Professor Crum Brown, Mr. Milne-Home, Mr. John Murray, 

 Mr. Buchan, and Lord McLaren be reappointed a Committee for the 

 purpose of co-operating with the Scottish Meteorological Society in 

 making meteorological observations on Ben Nevis ; that Professor Crum 

 Brown be the Secretary, and that the sum of 150Z. be placed at their 

 disposal for the purpose. 



That Professor G. Carey Foster, Sir William Thomson, Professor 

 Ayrton, Professor J. Perry, Professor W. G. Adams, Lord Rayleigh, 

 Dr. 0. J. Lodge, Dr. John Hopkinson, Dr. A. Muirhead, Mr. W. H. 

 Preece, Mr. Herbert Taylor, Professor Everett, Professor Schuster, Dr. 

 J. A. Fleming, Professor G. F. Fitzgerald, Mr. R. T. Glazebrook, Professor 

 Chrystal, Mr. H. Tomlinson, Professor W. Garnett, Professor J. J. 

 Thomson, Mr. W. N. Shaw, Mr. J. T. Bottomley, and Mr. Thomas Gray 

 be reappointed a Committee for the purpose of making experiments for 

 improving the construction of practical Standards for use in Electrical 

 Measurements ; that Mr. Glazebrook be the Secretary, and that the sum 

 of 80Z. be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 



That Professors Balfour Stewart and Sir W. Thomson, Sir J. H. 

 Lefroy, Professors G. H. Darwin, G. Chrystal, and S. J. Perry, Mr. C. H. 



