Ixxviii KEPOET — 1887. 



Carpmael, Professor Schuster, Mr. G. M. Whipple, Captain Creak, the 

 Astronomer Royal, Mr. William Ellis, Professor W. G. Adams, and Mr. 

 W. Laut Carpenter be reappointed a Committee for the purpose of con- 

 sidering the best means of comparing- and reducing Magnetic Observa- 

 tions ; that Professor Balfour Stewart be the Secretary, and that the sum 

 of Ibl. be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 



That Professor G. Forbes, Captain Abney, Dr. J. Hopkinson, 

 Professor W. G. Adams, Professor G. C. Foster, Lord Rayleigh, Mr. 

 Preece, Professor Schuster, Professor Dewar, Mr. A. Vernon Harcourt, 

 Mr. H. Trueman Wood, Sir James Douglass, and Professor H. B. Dixon 

 be reappointed a Committee for the pui^pose of reporting on Standards of 

 Light ; that Professor G. Forbes be the Secretary, and that the sum of 

 100^. be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 



That the Committee consisting of Pi'ofessors Armstrong and Lodge, 

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

 Schuster, Poynting, Crum Brown, Ramsay, Frankland, Tilden, Hartley, 

 S. P. Thompson, McLeod, Roberts-Austen, Riicker, Reinold, Carey 

 Foster, and H. B. Dixon, Captain Abney, Drs. Gladstone, Hopkinson, and 

 Fleming, and Messrs. Crookes, Shelford Bid well, W. N. Sbaw, J. Larmor, 

 J. T. Bottomley, R. T. Glazebrook, J'. Brown, E. J. Love, and John M. 

 Thomson be reappointed a Committee for the purjjose of considering 

 the subject of Electrolysis in its Physical and Chemical bearings; that 

 Professor Armstrong be the Chemical Secretary and Professor Lodge the 

 Physical Secretary, and that the sum of 50Z. be placed at their disposal 

 for the purpose, of which not more than 20/. is to be spent in printing 

 and postage. 



That Professors Balfour Stewart, Schuster, and Stokes, Mr. G. 

 Johnstone Stoney, Sir H. E. Roscoe, Captain Abney, and Mr. G. J. 

 Symons be reappointed a Committee for the purpose of considering the 

 best methods of recording the direct intensity of Solar Radiation ; that 

 Professor Balfour Stewart be the Secretary, and that the sum of 101. be 

 placed at their disposal for the purpose. 



That Professors Armstrong, Meldola, and Smithells, Drs. Gladstone, 

 Russell, and Vernon Harcourt, Messrs. J. T. Dunn, Francis Jones, M. M. 

 Pattison Muir, and W. A. Shenstone, and Professor Dunstan be a Com- 

 mittee for the purpose of inquiring into and reporting on the present 

 methods adopted for teaching chemistry ; that Professor Dunstan be the 

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

 purpose. 



That Professors W. A. Tilden and H. E. Armstrong be reappointed a 

 Committee for the purpose of investigating Isomeric Naphthalene Deriva- 

 tives ; that Professor H. E. Armstrong be the Secretary, and that the sum 

 of 251. be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 



That Dr. Russell, Captain Abney, Professor Hartley, and Dr. A. 

 Richardson be a Committee for the purpose of investigating the action 

 of light on the Hydracids of the Halogens in Presence of Oxygen ; that 

 Dr. A Richardson be the Secretary, and that the sum of 201. be placed at 

 their disposal for the purpose. 



That Professors McLeod and Ramsay, Mr. J. T. Cundnll. and Mr. W. A. 

 Shenstone be reappointed a Committee for the further in\ estigation of 

 the Influence of the Silent Discharge of Electricity on Oxygen and other 

 gases ; that Mr. W. A. Shenstone be the Secretary, and that the sum of 

 J 01. be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 



