COMMIT! EJES APPOINTED BY THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. 

 2. Not receiving Grants of Money — continued. 



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Subject for Investigation or Purpose 



Considering the advisability and possi- 

 bility of establishing in other parts 

 of the country Observations upon the 

 Prevalence of Earth Tremors similar 

 to those now being made in Durham 

 in connection with coal-mine explo- 

 sions. 



Seasonal Variations in the Temperatures 

 of Lakes, Rivers, and Estuaries in 

 various parts of the United King- 

 dom in cooperation with the Local 

 Societies represented on the Associa- 

 tion. 



Considering the best Methods of Re- 

 cording the Direct Intensity of Solar 

 Radiation. 



Cooperating with the Scottish Meteo- 

 rological Society in making Meteoro- 

 logical Observations on Ben Nevis. 



Reporting on the Bibliographj^ of Solu- 

 tion. 



The Influence of Silicon on the Proper- 

 ties of Steel. 



To report on recent inquiries into the 

 History of Chemistry. 



The Continuation of the Bibliographj' 

 of Spectroscopy. 



Preparing a new series of Wave-length 

 Tables of the Spectraof the Elements. 



Reporting upon the < Manure Gravels ' 

 of Wexford. 



An Ancient Sea-beach near Bridlington. 



Members of the Committee 



Chairman. — Mr. G. J. Sj'mons. 



Secretary. — Professor Lebour. 



Sir F. J. Bramwell, Mr. E. A. Cowper, 

 Professor G. H. Darwin, Professor 

 Ewing, Mr. Isaac Roberts, Mr. Thomas 

 Gray, Dr. John Evans, Professors Prest- 

 wich, Hull, Meldola, and Judd, Mr. M. 

 Walton Brown, and Mr. J. Glaisher. 



Chairman.- — Mr. John Murray. 



Secretary. — Dr. H. R. Mill. 



Professor Chrystal, Dr. A. Buchan, the Rev. 

 C. J. Steward, the Hon. R. Abercromby, 

 Mr. J. Y. Buchanan, Mr. David Cun- 

 ningham, Mr. Isaac Roberts, Professor 

 Fitzgerald, Mr. Sorby, and Mr. Willis 

 Bund. 



Chairman. — Sir G. G. Stokes. 

 Secretary. — Mr. G. J. Symons. 

 Professor Schuster. Mr. G. Johnstone 



Stoney, Sir H. E. Roscoe, Captain 



Abney, and Mr. Whipple. 



Chairman. — Hon. R. Abercromby. 

 Secretary. — Professor Crum Brown. 

 Messrs. Milne-Home, John Murray, and 

 Buchan and Lord McLaren. 



Chairman. — Professor W. A. Tilden. 

 Secretary. — Dr. W. W. J. Nicol. 

 Professors M'Leod, Pickering, Ramsay, 

 and Young and Dr. A. R. Leeds. 



Chairman. — Professor W. A. Tilden. 

 Secretary. — Mr. Thomas Turner. 

 Professor Roberts- Austen. 



Chairman. — Professor H. E. Armstrong. 

 Secretary. — Professor John Ferguson. 



Chairman. — Professor H. M'Leod. 

 Secretary. — Professor Roberts-Austen. 

 Professor Reinold and Mr. H. G. Madan. 



Chairman. — Sir H. E. Roscoe. 



Secretari/. — Dr. Marshall Watts. 



Mr. Lockyer, Professors Dewar, Liveing, 



Schuster, W. N. Hartley, and Wolcott 



Gibbs, and Captain Abney. 



Chairman. — Mr. R. Etheridge. 

 Secretary. — Mr. A. Bell. 

 Dr. H. Woodward. 



Chairman. — Mr. J. W. Davis. 



Secretary. — Mr. G. W. Lamplugh. 



Mr. W. Cash, Dr. H. Hicks, Jlr. Clement 



Reid, Dr. H. Woodward, and Mr. T. 



Boynton. 



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