RECOMMENDATIONS ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. IxxXV 



Mr. J. Heywood, and Professor N. Story Maskelyne be reappointed a 

 Committee for the purpose of continuing the inquiries relating to the 

 teaching of Science in Elementary Schools ; and that Dr. J. H. Grladstone 

 be the Secretary. 



That Sir John Lubbock, Dr. John Evans, Professor Boyd Dawkins, 

 Dr. R. Munro, Mr. Pengelly, Dr. Hicks, Mr. J. W. Davis, Professor 

 Meldola, and Dr. Muirhead be reappointed a Committee for the purpose 

 of ascertaining and recording the localities in the British Islands in which 

 Evidences of the Existence of Prehistoric Inhabitants of the Country are 

 found ; and that Mr. J. W. Davis be the Secretary. 



That the Corresponding Societies Committee, consisting of Mr. Francis 

 Galton (Chairman), Professor A. W. Williamson, Sir Douglas Galton, 

 Professor Boyd Dawkins, Sir Rawson Rawson, Dr. J. G-. Carson, Dr. J. 

 Evans, Mr. J. Hopkinson, Professor R. Meldola (Secretary), Mr. W. 

 Whitaker, Mr. G. J. Symons, General Pitt-Rivers, Mr. W. Topley, Mr. 

 H. G. Fordham, and Mr. William White, be reappointed. 



That Mr. W. N. Shaw be requested to draw up a Report on the present 

 state of our knowledge in Electrolysis and Electrochemistry. 



That Mr. P. T. Main be requested to continue his Report on our 

 experimental knowledge of the Properties of Matter Avith respect to 

 voluiue, pressui-e, temperature, and specific heat. 



That Mr. Glazebrook be requested to continue his Report on Optics. 



That Professor J. J. Thomson be requested to continue his Report on 

 Electircal Theories. 



Communications ordered to he printed in extenso in the Annual 

 Report of the Association. 



Sir W. Thomson's paper ' On the Vortex Theory of the Luminiferous 

 -^ther.' 



Professor H. Lamb's paper ' On the Theory of Electrical Endosmose 

 and Allied Phenomena, and- on the existence of a Sliding Coefficient for a 

 Fluid in contact with a Solid.' 



Mr. W. Topley's paper ' On Gold and Silver : their Geological Distri- 

 bution and their probable Future Production.' 



Mr. G. Auldjo Jamieson's paper entitled ' Recent Illustrations of the 

 Theory of Rent and their EflFect on the Value of Land,' and a Memoran- 

 dum ' On the Methods of Ascertaining Variation in the Value of the 

 Precious Metals.' 



Professor Osborne Reynolds's paper ' On certain Laws relating to the 

 Regime of Estuaries and on the possibility of Experiments on a small 

 scale ' (with the necessary illustrations). 



Messrs. E. A. Cowper and W. Anderson's paper 'On the Mechanical 

 Equivalent of Heat ' (with the necessary illustrations). 



Mr. G. Forbes's paper ' On an Electric Current Meter ' (with the 

 necessary illustrations) . 



Resolv/tions referred to the Council for Consideration, and Action if 

 desirable. 



That the Council be requested to take such action as they may think 

 most expedient in order to bring before the Signal Office of the United 

 States a statement of the high value which British meteorologists attach 

 to the manuscript bibliography prepared by the Signal Office. 



