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Report of the Committee, consisting of General Festing (Chairman), Dr. 

 H. E. Akmstrong (Secretary), Captain Abnet, and Professor W. iN. 

 Hartley, on the Absorption Spectra of Pure Compounds 2.n 



Second Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor H. E. Aemsteong, 

 Professor AV. R. Dxjnstan (Secretary), Dr. J. H. Gladstone, Mr. A. G. 

 Vernon Haecotjet, Professor H. M'Lbod, Professor Meldola, Mr. Patti- 

 soN MuiR, Sir Heney E. Roscoe, Dr. W. J. Russell (Chairman), Mr. 

 W. A. Shenstone, Professor Smithells, and Mr. Stallaed, appointed 

 for the purpose of inquiring into and reporting upon the present methods of 

 teaching Chemistry ^"^ 



Third Report of the Committee, consisting of Professors Tilden and W. 

 Chandler Robeets-Atjsten and Mr.T. Tuenee (Secretary), appointed for 

 the purpose of investigating the Influence of Silicon on the properties of 

 Steel 267 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Mr. H. Baueeman, Mr. F. W. Rudlee, 

 Mr. J. J. H. Teall, and Dr. H. J. Johnston-Lavis, appointed for the in- 

 vestigation of the Volcanic Phenomena of Vesuvius and its neighbourhood. 

 (Drawn up by Dr. H. J. Johnston-Latis, F.G.S., Secretary) 283 



Ninth Report of the Committee, consisting of Mr. R. Etheeidge, Professor 

 Thomas Geat, and Professor John Milne (Secretary), appointed for the 

 purpose of investigating tlie Earthquake and Volcanic Phenomena of 

 Japan. (Drawn up by the Secretary) 295 



Report of the Committee, consisting of the Hon. Ralph Aberceomby (Chair- 

 man), Professor Ceum Beown Mr. Milne-Home, Dr. John Mueeat, Lord 

 McLaren, and Dr. Alexander Buchan, appointed for the purpose of co- 

 operating with the Scottish Meteorological Society in making Meteorological 

 Observations on Ben Nevis ^1^ 



Third Report of the Committee, consisting of Sir John Ltjbbock, Dr. John 

 Evans, Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, Dr. R. Muneo, Mr. W. Pengelly, Dr. 

 Henry Hicks, Professor Meldola, Dr. Muiehead, and Mr. James W. 

 Davis, appointed 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. (Drawn up by Mr. James W. Davis) 318 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Mr. W. H. Peeece (Chairman), Pro- 

 fessor H. S. Hele Shaw (Secretary), Messrs. B. Baeee, \V. Anderson, 

 and G. Kapp, and Professors J. Perry and R. 11. Smith, appointed to 

 report on the Development of Graphic Methods in IMechanical Science . . . 322 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Sir J. N. Doxiglass, Professor W. C. 

 Unwin (Secretary), Professor Osboene Reynolds, and Messrs. W. Topley, 

 E. Leader Williams, W. Shelpord, G. F. Deacon, A. R. Hunt, and 

 W. H. Wheeler, appointed to investigate the Action of Waves and 

 Currents on the Beds and Foreshores of Estuaries by means of Working 

 Models 327 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor McLeod (Chairman), Pro- 

 fessor Roberts-Austen (Secretary), and Professor Reinold, for the 

 Continuation of the Bibliography of Spectroscopy 344 



Report of the Committee, consisting of General Pitt-Rivers, Dr. Gaeson, 

 and Mr. Bloxam, appointed for the purpose of calculating the Anthro- 

 pological Measurements taken at Bath. (Drawn up bv Dr. Garson, Secre- 

 tary) ; 423 



Second Report of the Committee, consisting of Mr. A. W. Wills (Chairman), 

 Mr. E. W. Badger, and Professor Hillhouse, for the purpose of collecting 

 information as to the Disappearance of Native Plants from their Local 

 Habitats. (Drawn up by Professor Hillhouse, Secretary) 435 



