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RESEARCH COMMITTEES. 
RESEARCH COMMITTEES APPOINTED BY THE GENERAL COMMITTEE 
AT THE LEICESTER MeetTING: AvuGust 1907. 
1. Receiving Grants of Money. 
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Subject for Investigation, or Purpose | 
Section A—MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS. 
Seismological Observations. 
The further Tabulation of Bessel 
Functions. 
To co-operate with the Royal 
Meteorological Society in the 
Investigation of the Upper At- 
mosphere by means of Kites. - 
To co-operate with the Scottish 
Meteorological Society in mak- 
ing Meteorological Observations 
on Ben Nevis. 
To carry out a further portion of 
the Geodetic Arc of Meridian 
North of Lake Tanganyika. 
Members of Committee 
Chairman.—Professor H.H.Turner. 
Secretary.—Dr. J. Milne. 
Lord Kelvin, Dr. T. G. Bonney, 
Mr. C. V. Boys, Sir George 
Darwin, Mr. 
Major L. Darwin, Professor 
J. A. Ewing, Mr. M. H. Gray, 
Dr. R. T. Glazebrook, Professors 
J. W. Judd, C. G. Knott, and | 
R. Meldola, Mr. R. D. Old- 
ham, Professor J. Perry, Mr. | 
W. E. Plummer, Professor J. H. 
Poynting, Mr. Clement Reid, | 
and Mr. Nelson Richardson. 
Chairman.—FProfessor M. J. M. 
Hill. 
Secretary.—Dr. L. N. G. Filon. 
Professor Alfred Lodge. 
Chairman.—Dr. W. N. Shaw. 
Secretary.—Mr. W. H. Dines. 
Mr. D. Archibald, Mr. C. Vernon 
Boys, Dr. R. T. Glazebrook, Dr. 
H. R. Mill, Dr. A. Schuster, and 
Dr. W. Watson, 
Chairman.—Lord McLaren. 
Secretary.—Professor Crum Brown. 
Sir John Murray, Professor F. W. 
Dyson, and Mr. Omond. 
Chairman.—Sir George Darwin. 
Secretary.—Sir David Gill. 
Major Close and Sir George Goldie. 
Section B.—CHEMISTRY. 
Preparing a new Series of Wave- 
length Tables of the Spectra 
of the Elements. 
Chairman.—Sir H. E. Roscoe. 
Secretary.—Dr. Marshall Watts. 
Sir Norman Lockyer, Professors 
Sir J. Dewar, G. D. Liveing, A. 
Schuster, W. N. Hartley, and 
Wolcott Gibbs, Sir W. de W. 
Abney, and Dr, W. E. Adeney. 
Horace Darwin, | 
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