Ixxxiv KEPOET — 1887. 



wards in various Localities of Dry Land and under Water ; and that Pro- 

 fessor Everett be the Secretary. , „ , x r. a j i 



That Professor G. H. Darwin and Professor J. C. Adams be reap- 

 iDointed a Committee for the Harmonic Analysis of Tidal Observations ; 

 and that Professor Darwin be the Secretary. , ^ ^ ^ , . , 



That Professors Ramsay, Tilden, Marshall, and W. L. Goodwin be 

 a Committee for the purpose of investigating certain Physical Constants 

 of Solution, especially the expansion of saline solutions ; and that Pro- 

 fessor W. l'. Goodwin be the Secretary. 



That Professors Tilden, McLeod, Pickering, and Ramsay, and Drs. 

 Youno' A R Leeds, and Nicol be a Committee for the purpose of re- 

 porting on the Bibliography of Solution ; and that Dr. Nicol be the 



^^That'Captain Abney, General Testing, and Professors W. N. Hartley 

 and H E Armstrong be a Committee for the purpose of investigating the 

 Absorption Spectra of Pure Compounds ; and that Professor Armstrong 

 be the Secretary. . 



That Sir H. B. Roscoe, Mr. Lockyer, Professors Dewar, Livemg, 

 Schuster, W. N. Hartley, and Wolcott Gibbs, Captain Abney, and 

 Dr Marshall Watts be a Committee for the purpose of preparing 

 a new series of Wave-length Tables of the Spectra of the Elements ; 

 and that Dr. Marshall Watts be the Secretary. 



That Dr. W. T. Blanford, Professor J. W. Judd, Mr. W. Carruthers, 

 Dr H. Woodward, and Mr. J. S. Gardner be reappointed a Committee 

 for the purpose of reporting on the Fossil Plants of the Tertiary and 

 Secondary Beds of the United Kingdom ; and that Mr. Gardner be the 



secretary. . ^ ^t t n n ^ i 



That Dr. H. Woodward. Mr. H. Keeping, and Mr. J. S. Gardner be 

 reappointed a Committee for the purpose of exploring the Higher Eocene 

 B6ds of the Isle of Wight ; and that Mr. J. S. Gardner be the Secretary. 

 That Professor T. G. Bonney, Mr. J. J. H. Teall, and Professor J. F. 

 Blake be reappointed a Committee for the purpose of investigating the 

 Microscopic Structure of the older Rocks of Anglesey ; and that Professor 

 J. F. Blake be the Secretary. , „ ^ m -r. t 



That Mr. R. Etheridge, Dr. H. Woodward, and Professor T. R. Jones 

 be reappointed a Committee for the purpose of reporting on the Fossil 

 Phyllopoda of the Palasozoic Rocks ; and that Professor T. R. Jones be 



the Secretary. t, n tt jj 



That Professor Valentine Ball, Mr. H. G.Fordhara, Professor Haddon, 

 Professor Hillhouse, Mr. John Hopkinson, Dr. Macfarlane, Professor 

 Milnes Marshall, Mr. F. T. Mott (Secretary), Dr. Traquair, and Dr. _H. 

 Woodward be reappointed a Committee for the purpose of preparing 

 a Report upon the Provincial Museums of the United Kingdom ; and 

 that Mr. Mott be the Secretary. 



That Sir Joseph D. Hooker, Sir John Lubbock, Sir George Wares, 

 General J. T. Walker, Sir Leopold McClintock, Admiral Sir George H. 

 Richards, Professor Flower, Professor Huxley, Dr. Sclater, Professor 

 Moseley, Mr. John Murray, General Strachey, and Sir William Thomson 

 be reappointed a Committee for the purpose of drawing attention to the 

 desirability of prosecuting further research in the Antarctic Regions ; 

 and that Admiral Sir Erasmus Ommanney be the Secretary. 



That Dr. J. H. Gladstone, Professor Armstrong, Mr. S. Bourne, Miss 

 Becker, Sir J. Lubbock, Dr. Crosskey, Sir R. Temple, Sir H. E. Roscoe, 



