XCIV 



REPORT — 1902. 



2. Not receiving Grants of Money — continued. 



Subject for Investigation or Purpose 



To approach the Inland Revenue Com- 

 missioners to urge the desirability 

 of securing the use of pure alcohol 

 duty free for the purposes of scien- 

 tific research. 



The Relation between the Absorption 

 Spectra and Chemical Constitution of 

 Organic Substances. 



The action of Gases dissolved in Metals 

 and Alloys on their Properties. 



To consider and report on the possibility 

 of making special Reports more avail- 

 able than at present by indexing and 

 by the wider distribution of them. 



Chairman. — Sir H. E. Roscoe. 



Secretary. — Professor H. B. Dixon. 



Sir Michael Foster, Sir A. W. Riicker, 

 Dr. T. E. Thorpe, Professor W. H. 

 Perkin, and Professor W. D. Halli- 

 burton. 



Chairman and Secretary. — Professor W. 



Noel Hartley. 

 Professor F. R. Japp, Professor J. J. 



Dobbie, and Mr. Alexander Lauder. 



Chairman. — Sir Wm. C. Roberts-Austen. 



Secretary. — Dr. T. K. Rose. 



Mr. W. Carrick Anderson, Professor H. B. 



Dixon, Mr C. T. Heycock, Mr. F. H. 



Neville, and Sir W. Ramsay. 



Chairman. — Professor W. A. Sbenstone. 

 Secretary. — Dr. M. O. Forster. 

 Professor E. Divers, Professor W. J. Pope, 

 and Dr. A. W, Crossley. 



Section C— GEOLOGY. 



To report upon the present state of 

 our Knowledge of the Structure of 

 Crystals. 



To consider the best Methods for the 

 Registration of all Type Specimens of 

 Fossils in the British Isles, and to 

 report on the same. 



To investigate the Estuarine Deposit at 

 Kirmington, Lincolnshire, and to con- 

 sider its position with regard to the 

 Glacial Deposits. 



Chairman. — Professor N. Story Maske- 



lyne. 

 Secretary.— VroiessoT H. A. Miers. 

 Mr. L. Fletcher, Professor W. J. Sollas, 



Mr. VV. Barlow, Mr. G. F. H. Smith, 



and the Ear] of Berkeley. 



Chairman. — Dr. H. Woodward. 

 Secretary. — Mr. A. Smith Woodward. 

 Rev. G. 'F. Whidborne, Mr. R. Kidston, 



Professor H. G. Seeley, Mr. H. Woods, 



and Rev. J. F. Blake. 



Chairman. — Mr. G. W. Lamplugh. 

 Secretary. — Mr. J. W. Stather. 

 Professor P. F. Kendall, Mr. Clement 



Reid, Mr. F. W. Harmer, and Mr. T. 



Sheppard. 



Section D.— ZOOLOGY. 



To investigate the structure, formation, 

 and growth of the Coral Reefs of the 

 Indian Region, with special observa- 

 tions on the inter- relationship of the 

 reef organisms, the depths at which 

 they grow, the food of corals, effects 

 of currents and character of the ocean 

 bottom, &c. The land flora and fauna 

 will be collected, and it is intended 

 that observations shall be made on the 

 manners, &c., of the natives in the 

 different parts of the Blaldivfe group. 



Chairman. — Mr. A. Sedgwick. 

 Secretary. — Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner. 

 Professor J. W. Judd, Mr. J. J. Lister, 

 I Mr. Francis Darwin. Dr. S. F. Harmer, 



and Professors A. Macalister, W. A. 



Herdman, and S. J. Hickson. 



