HESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. IxXXV 



Other Resolutions adopted hy the General Committee. 



That Mr. J. Larmor be requested to draw up a Report on the present state of 

 our knowledge in Thermodynamics, specially with regard to the second law. 



That Mr. W. N. Shaw be requested to continue his Report on the present state o£ 

 our knowledge in Electrolysis and Electro-chemistry. 



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

 knowledge of the Properties of Matter with respect to Vulume, Pressure, Tempera- 

 ture, and Specific Heat. 



Communications ordered to be printed in extenso in the Anmial Report 



of the Association. 



Professor A. B. W. Kennedy's paper ' On the Transmission of Power by Com- 

 pressed Air (Popp's System).' 



Mr. Francis Galton's papers 'On the advisability of assigning Marks for Bodily 



Efficiency in the Examinations of Candidates for the Public Services,' and ' On the 



Principle and Methods of assigning Marks for Bodily Efficiency,' together with a 



full abstract of Mr. Somerville's 'Remarks on the Results of Experiments at Eton 



" College.' [Proofs of these papers to be supplied for present distribution.] 



Besoliitions referred to the Council for consideration, and action 



if desirable. 



That the Council be recommended to urge upon the Government of India— 



(1) The desirability of procuring anthropometric measurements of a repre- 



sentative series of tribes and castes in the Punjab, Bombay, Madras, the 

 Central Provinces, and Assam; it being understoodthat trained observers 

 are alread}' available. 



(2) Also that in the Enumerators' Schedule of the Census of 1891 provision 



should be made for recording not only the caste to which a man belongs, 

 but also the cndogamous and exogamous groups within the caste of which, 

 he is a member ; it being believed that this was actually done in the last 

 Census of the Punjab, that it will not add to the cost of the Census, and 

 that it will materially enhance its accuracy and scientific value. 



That the two following papers be printed in extcnso in the Report of the 

 Association : — 



(1) Professor C. F. Bastable: ' The Incidence and Effects of Import and Ex- 



port Duties.' 



(2) Rev. Dr. Cunningham : ' The Comtist Criticism of Economic Science.' 



That the Council of the Association be requested to consider the following Reso- 

 lutions of the Committee of Section H, and if approved to bring them under the 

 notice of II. M. Civil Service Commissioners and of the chief authorities of the Army, 

 Navy, and Indian Civil Service Departments : — 



(1) That the Committee concur in the opinion of H.M. Civil Ser\-ice Commis- 



sioners (Report xxxiii. page 15) that there is no especial difliculty in 

 assigning marks for physical qualifications with adequate precision. 



(2) They urge that it is reasonable to include marks for physical qualifications 



among those by which the place of a candidate is determined in com- 

 petitive examinations for posts where high physical efficiency is advan- 

 tageous. 

 That the Council be requested to urge upon the Canadian Governrnent the 

 desirability of again making a supplementary grant to the Committee appointed for 

 the purjMse of investigating the habits, customs, and physical characteristics of the 

 North-Western tribes of the Dominion of Canada, in view of the urgent necessity of 

 pushing forward operations with as much rapidity as possible in consequence of the 

 anticipated speedy extinction of many of the native tribes. 



