COMMITTEES APPOlNTEt) BY THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. 

 2. Nut receiving Grants of Mime>/-- continuedi. 



cm 



Subject te* Iftvestigation or Purpose 



The Relation between the Absorption 

 Spectra RHfl Chemical Constitution of 

 Organic yubstances. 



Members of the CSoinmlttfee 



CJiairmin, and Secretary. — Professor W. 



Noel Hartley. 

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



Dobbie, and Mr. Alexander Lauder. 



Section C— GEOLOGY. 



The Collection, Preservation, and vSys- 

 tematic Registration of Photographs 

 of Geological Interest. 



Chdirman. — Professor J. Geikie. 

 Secretary. — Professor W. W. Watts. 

 Professor T. G. Bonney, Dr. T. Anderson, 



Professors E. J. Garwood and S. H. 



Reynolds, and Messrs. A. S. Reid, W. 



Gray, H. B. Woodward, K. Kidston, 



J. J. H. Te^ll, J. G. Goodchild, H. 



Coates, C. V. Crook, G. Bingley, R. 



Welch, A. K. Coomaraswamy, and 



W. J. Harrison. 



To report upon the present state of i Chairman. — Professor N. Story Maske- 

 our Knowledge of the Structure of I lyne. 

 Crystals. ' Secretary. — Professor H. A. Miers. 



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

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

 the Earl of Berkeley, and Mr. H. L. 

 Bowman. 



To promote the Registration of Type 

 Specimens of Fossils in the British 

 Isles. 



Chairnmn. — Dr. H. Woodward. 

 Secretary. — Dr. A. Smith Woodward. 

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

 . Professor H. G. Seeley, Mr. H. Wcods, 

 and Rev. J. F. Blake. 



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 al which 

 they grow, the food of corals, effects 

 of currents and character of the ocean 

 bottom, &c. The land tloraand fauna 

 will be collected, and it is intended 

 that oljservations shall be made on the 

 manners, &c., of the natives in the 

 different parts of the Maldivc group. 



To enable Miss Igcsna Solla.s, of Newn- 

 ham College, Cambridge, to study 

 certain points in the development of 

 Ophiusoids, and to enable other com- 

 petent naturalists to perform delinite 

 pieces of work at the Marine Labora- 

 tory, Plymouth. 



Chairman. — Mr. A. Sedgwick. 



Secretary. — l\Ir. J. Stanley Gardiner. 



Professor J. W. Jndd, Mr. J. J. Lister, 

 Mr. Fr,ancis Darwin. Dr. S. F. Harmer, 

 and Professors A. Macalister, W. A. 

 Herdman, and S. J. Uickaon. 



Chairman and Secretary. — Mr. W. Car- 

 stang. 



Professor E. Ray Lankester, Mr. A. Sedg- 

 wick, Professor Sydney H. Vines, and 

 Professor W. F. R. Weldon. 



