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Committees appointed by the Gteneral Committee at the 

 Newcastle-upon-Tyne Meeting in September 1889. 



1. deceiving Grants of Money. 



Subject for Investigation or Purpose 



Members of the Committee 



Inviting Designs for a good DiSe- 

 rential Gravity Meter in super- 

 session of the Pendulum, where- 

 by satisfactory results may be 

 obtained at each station of 

 observation in a few hours 

 instead of the many days over 

 which it is necessary to extend 

 pendulum observations. 



To co-operate with Dr. Kerr in 

 his researches on Electro-optics. 



For Calculating Tables of certain 

 Mathematical Functions, and, if 

 necessary, of taking steps to 

 carry out the calculations, and 

 to publish the results in an ac- 

 cessible form. 



The Volcanic and Seismological 

 Phenomena of Japan. 



Carrying on the Tables connected 

 with the Pellian Equation from 

 the point where the work was 

 left by Degen in 1817. 



Making Experiments for improv- 

 ing the Construction of Practical 

 Standards for use in Electrical 

 Measurements. 



Chairman.— General J. T. Walker. 



Secretary. — Professor Poynting. 



Sir William Thomson, Sir J. H. 

 Lefroy, General R. Strachey, Pro- 

 fessors A. S. Herschel, G. Chrystal, 

 C. Niven, and A. Schuster, and Mr. 

 C. V. Boys. 



Chairman. — Dr. John Kerr. 

 Secretary. — Mr. R. T. Glazebrook. 

 Sir W. Thomson and Professor 

 Eiicker. 



Chairman. — Lord Rayleigh. 



Secretary. — Professor A. Lodge. 



Sir William Thomson, Professor Cay- 

 ley, Profebsor B. Price, and Messrs. 

 J. W. L. Glaisher, A. G. Greenhill, 

 and W. M. Hicks. 



Chairman. — Sir W. Thomson. 

 Secretar//. — Professor J. Milne. 

 Professor W. G. Adams, Mr. J. T. 



Bottomley, and Professor A. H. 



Green. 



Chairman. — Professor Cay ley. 

 Secretary. — Professor A. Lodge. 

 Professor Sylvester and Mr. A. R. 

 Forsyth. 



Chairtnan. — Professor Carey Foster. 



Secretary. — Mr. R. T. Glazebrook. 



Sir William Thomson, Professors 

 Ayrton, J. Perry, W. G. Adams, 

 and Lord Rayleigh, Drs. O. J. 

 Lodge, John Hopkinson, and A. 

 Muirhead, Messrs. W. H. Preece 

 and HertDert Taylor, Professors 

 Everett and Schuster, Dr. J. A. 

 Fleming, Professors G. F. Fitz- 

 gerald and Chrystal, Mr. H. Tom- 

 linson. Professors W. Garnett and 

 J. J. Thomson, Messrs. W. N. 

 Shaw, J. T. Bottomley, and T. C. 

 Fitzpatrick, and Professor J. 

 Viriamu Jones. 



Grants I 



£ 

 10 



50 



25 



75 



15 



50 



