320 REPORT — 1887. 



Varieties of Plain Cloth. 



The Blackburn list, it will be found, makes provision for varieties ot 

 cloth not properly called plain cloth. If the cloth has an ornamental 

 coloured border it is called ' plain dhooty,' and for weaving this 10 per 

 cent, extra is allowed. ' Dobbie dhooty 's '' mean cloths which have a 

 raised or figured pattern, and for some of these from 20 to 50 per cent, 

 extra is paid. ' Splits,' or cloth with a double salvage down the centre, 

 are also specially provided for. 



II. The North and North-east Lancashire List for Fancy Cloth. 



This list, which has been widely adopted, regulates the wages paid for 

 weaving various kinds of fancy cloth, such as brocades, damasks, stripes, 

 satins. The principle adopted is to pay a certain percentage over that 

 paid for plain cloth. Three classes of cloth are specially provided for : — 



(1) Double lift Jacquards. 



Plain grounds, 30 per cent, extra. 

 Satin grounds, 25 „ 



Lace brocades, 5 ,, 



(2) Dobbie and Tappet motions. 



The percentage varies with the number of staves. 



(3) Satins, &c. 



Eio-ht per cent, additional to be paid for cloth up to 25 picks, 

 and for every additional pick i per cent, extra. 



These figures are sufficient to indicate the method adopted for fixing 

 wao-es in the fancy cloth trade. An intimate knowledge of the weaving 

 industry is necessary in order to understand the technical terms used, but 

 for the purposes of this report it is only necessary to point oat that the 

 fancy Hst is based on the plain list, and that the extra wages is a recom- 

 pense for a high degree of skill and for increased labour. 



Third Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor Balfour 

 Stewart (Secretary), Professor W. Gr. Adams, Mr. W. Lant 

 Carpenter, Mr. C. H. Carpmael, Mr. W. H. M. Christie 

 (Astronomer Royal), Professor Gr. Chrystal, Staff Commander 

 Creak, Professor Gr. H. Darwin, Mr. William Ellis, Sir J. H. 

 Lefroy, Professor S. J. Perry, Professor Schuster, Sir W. 

 Thomson, and Mr. G. M.Whipple, appointed for the purpose of 

 considering the best means of Comparing and Reducing Mag- 

 netic Observations. {Drawn up by Professor Balfour Stewart.) 

 [Plates I. and TI] 



Since their last report this Committee have met twice at 22 Albemarle 

 Street, London, W. 



At the first of these meetings, which took place on November 13, 

 1886, it was resolved that the establishment of regular magnetic observa- 

 tions' at the Cape of Good Hope and in South America would materially 

 contribute to our knowledge of terrestrial magnetism. 



