KESEAKCH COMMITTEES. 



CXXIX 



Research Committees appointed by the General Committee 

 AT THE Dublin Meeting : September 1908. 



1. Receiving Grants of Money. 



Subject for Investigation, or Purpose 



Members of Committee 



Grants 



Section A.— MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS. 



Seismological Observations. 



To co-operate with the Rojal 

 Meteorological Society ia the 

 Investigation of the Upper At- 

 mosphere by means of Kites. 



To co-operate with the Committee 

 of the Falmouth Observatory 

 in their Magnetic Observations. 



To aid the work of Establishing 

 a Solar Observatory in Australia. 



Chairman,. — Professor H H.Turner. 



Secretary. — Dr. J. Milne. 



Dr. T. G. Bonney, Mr. C. V. 

 Boys, Sir George Darwin, Mr. 

 Horace Darwin, Major L Dar- 

 win, 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. Oldham, 

 Professor J. Perry, Mr. W. 

 E. Plummer, Professor J. H. 

 Poynting, Mr. Clement Reid, 

 and Mr. Nelson Richardson. 



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, Professor J. E. 



Petavel, Dr. A. Schuster, and 



Dr.-W. Watson, 



Chairman. — Sir W. H. Preece. 



Secretary Dr. R. T. Glazebrook. 



Professor W. G. Adams, Captain 

 Creak, Mr. W. L. Fox, Professor 

 A. Schuster, Sir A. W. liiicker, 

 and Dr. Charles Chree. 



Chairman. — Sir David Gill 

 Secretary. — Dr W. G. Duffield. 

 Dr. W. J. S. Lockyer, Mr. F. 



McClean, and Professors A. 



Schuster and H. H Turner. 



Section B.— CHEMISTRY . 



Preparing a new Series of Wave- 

 length Tables of the Spectra 

 of the Elements. 



1908. 



ClMiirman. — Sir H. B. 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. 



Abuey, and Dr. W. E. Adeney. 



£ s. J. 

 60 



10 



50 



50 



10 



