COMMITTEES APPOINTED BY THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. 
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2. Not receiving Grants of Money—continued. 
Subject for Investigation or Purpose 
Members of the Committee 
| The Properties of Solutions . x 
| The Influence of the Silent Discharge 
_ of Electricity on Oxygen and other 
Gases. 
The Action of Light on the Hydracids 
| of the MHalogens in presence of 
Oxygen. 
England and Wales, and the Influence 
of the Artificial Abstraction of 
Shingle or other material in that 
action, 
To carry on Excavations at Oldbury 
| Hill, near Ightham, in order to ascer- 
tain the existence or otherwise of 
Rock Shelters at that spot. 
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. 
| To undertake the Investigation of the 
Sources of the River Aire, and also to 
test the value of Uranin and other 
Dyes in investigating the Courses of 
Underground Streams. 
The Invertebrate Fauna and Cryptoga- 
mic Flora of the Fresh Waters of the 
British Isles. 
Chairman.—Professor W. A. Tilden. 
Seerctary.—Dr. W. W. J. Nicol. 
Professor Ramsay. 
Chairman.—Professor H. M‘Leod. 
Secretary.—Mr. W. A. Shenstone. 
Professor Ramsay and Mr. J. T. Cundall. 
Chairman.—Dr. Russell. 
Secretary.—Dr. A. Richardson. 
Captain Abney and Professors Noel 
Hartley and W. Ramsay. 
Chairman.—General Festing. ; 
Secretary.—Dr. H. E. Armstrong. 
Captain Abney. 
Chairman.—My. R. B. Grantham. 
Secretaries —Messrs. C. E. De Rance and 
W. Topley. 
Messrs. J. B. Redman, W. Whitaker, and 
J. W. Woodall, Maj.-Gen. Sir A. Clarke, 
Admiral Sir E. Ommanney, Sir J.N. 
Douglass, Capt. Sir G. Nares, Capt. 
J. Parsons, Capt. W. J. L. Wharton, 
Professor J. Prestwich, and Messrs. E. 
Easton, J. 8. Valentine, and L. F. 
Vernon Harcourt. 
Chairman.—Dr. J. Evans. 
Secretary.—Mr. B. Harrison. 
Professors Prestwich and H. G. Seeley. 
Chairman.—Mr. G. J. Symons. 
Secretary.—Mr. C. Davison. 
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, Lebour, Meldola, and Judd, 
Mr. M. Walton Brown, and Mr. J. 
Glaisher. 
Chairman.—Professor R. Meldola. _ 
Secretary.—Professor Silvanus P. Thomp- 
son. 
Mr. J. Birbeck, Mr. Walter Morrison, 
M.P., Rev. Dr. Styles, and Mr. Thomas 
Tate. 
Chairman.—Professor Bayley Balfour. 
Secretary.—Professor J. C. Ewart. 
Canon A. M. Norman, Professors J. 
Geikie, A. C. Haddon, T. Johnston, 
W. J. Sollas, and Lapworth, Dr. H. 
Scott, and Mr. F, E. Beddard. 
