RESEARCH COMMITTEES. CXX1 
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Sxction E.—GEOGRAPHY. 
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| To carry on an Expedition to Chairman.—Sir John Murray. 50 00 
| investigate the Indian Ocean 
in view of a possible land con- 
nection, to examine the deep 
submerged banks, the Nazareth 
and Saya de Malha, and also the 
distribution of Marine Animals. 
The Quantity and Composition of 
Rainfall, and of Lake and River 
Discharge. 
The Exploration of Prince Charles 
Foreland, Spitsbergen. 
SECTION 
_ The Amount of Gold Coinage in 
Circulation in the United King- 
dom. 
SECTION 
Making Experiments for improv- 
ing the Construction of Practical | 
Standards for use in Electrical | 
Measurements. 
between India and South Africa | 
Seeretary.—Mr. J. Stanley Gar- 
diner. 
| Captain E. W. Creak, Professors 
W. A. Herdman, S. J. Hickson, 
and J. W. Judd, Mr. J. J. Lister, 
Dr. H. R. Mill, and Dr. David | 
Sharp. 
Chairman.—Sir John Murray. 
Secretaries.—Professor A. B. Mac- 
allum and Dr. A. J. Herbertson. 
Professor W. M. Davis, Professor 
P. F. Frankland, Mr. A. D. Hall,) 
Mr. N. F. Mackenzie, Mr. E. H. V. 
Melville, Dr. H. BR. Mill, Pro- 
fessor A. Penck, Mr. A. Strahan, 
and Mr. W. Whitaker, 
Chairman.—Mzy. G. G. Chisholm. 
Secretary.—Mr. W.S. Bruce. 
Major W. L. Forbes. 
F.—ECONOMIC SCIENCE AND STATISTICS. 
Chairman.—My. R. H. Inglis Pal- 
grave. 
| Seeretary.—Mr. H. Stanley Jevons. 
| Messrs. A. L. Bowley and D. H. 
Macgregor. 
G.—ENGINEERING. 
| Chairman.—-Lord Rayleigh. 
Secretary.—Dr. R. T. Glazebrook. 
Lord Kelvin, Professors W. E. 
Ayrton, J. Perry, W. G. Adams, 
| and G. Carey Foster, Sir Oliver 
| Lodge, Dr. A. Muirhead, Sir 
W. H. Preece, Professor A. 
Schuster, Dr. J. A. Fleming, | 
| Professor J. J. Thomson, Dr. 
| We N. Shaw, Dr. J. TL: Bot- 
tomley, Rev. T. C. Fitzpatrick, 
Dr. G. Johnstone Stoney, Pro- | 
fessor 8. P. Thompson, Mr. J. 
Rennie, Principal E. H. Griffiths, | 
Sir A. W. Riicker, Professor 
H. L. Callendar, and Messrs. 
G. Matthey, A. P. Trotter, T. 
Mather, and F. E. Smith. 
Section H.—ANTHROPOLOGY. 
To investigate the Lake Village | 
at Glastonbury, and to report 
on the best method of publish- 
ing the result. 
Chairman.—Dr. R. Munro. 
Seeretary.—Professor W. Boyd 
Dawkins. 
‘Sir John Evans and Messrs. 
| Arthur J. Evans, C. H. Read, 
| H. Balfour, and A. Bulleid, 
