CXXXV1 



RESEARCH COMMITTEES. 

 1 . Receiving Grants of Money — continued. 



Subject for Investigation, oi' Purpose 



Members of Committee 



Grants 



To investigate the Biological 

 Problems incidental to the Bel- 

 mullet Whaling Station. 



To defray expenses connected 

 with work on the Inheritance 

 and development of Secondary 

 Sexual Characters in Birds. 



Chairman. — Dr. A. E. Shipley. 

 Secretary. — Professor J. Stanley 



Gardiner. 

 Professor W. A. Herdman, Rev. 



W. Spotswood Green, Mr. E. S. 



Goodrich, Dr. II. W. Marett 



Tims, and Mr. R. M. Barring-ton. 



Chairman. — Professor G.C Bourne. 

 Secretary. — Mr. Geoffrey Smith. 

 Mr. E. 'S. Goodrich, Dr. W. T. 

 Caiman, and Dr. Marett Tims. 



Section E.— GEOGRAPHY. 



Upon a new series of equal area 

 maps, to measure areas of 

 vertical relief, vegetation, and 

 rainfall ; to calculate the mean 

 levels of the sphere, the con- 

 tinents and the oceans, and the 

 total mean annual rainfall over 

 (he lands. 



Calculation of areas of 10' squares 

 on the Spheroid. 1 



Section G 

 The Investigation of Gaseous Ex- 

 plosions, with special reference 

 to Temperature. 



Section H. 



To investigate the Lake Villages 

 in the neighbourhood of Glas- 

 tonbury in connection with a 

 Committee of the Somerset 

 Archaeological and Natural 

 History Society. 



To conduct Explorations with the 

 object of ascertaining the Age 

 of Stone Circles. 



Chairman. — Professor A. J. Her- 



bertson. 

 Secretary. — Mr. E. A. Reeves. 

 Dr. H. R. Mill, Mr. G. G. Chisholm, 



and Colonel C. F. Close. 



Chairman. — Colonel C. F. Close. 

 Secretary. — Mr. K. A. Reeves. 

 Captain H. G. Lyons. 



—ENGINEERING. 



Chairman. — Sir W. H. Preece. 



Secretaries. — Mr. Dugald Clerk 

 and Professor B. Hopkinson. 



Professors W. A. Bone, F. W. Bur- 

 stall, H. L. Callendar, E. G. 

 Coker, W. E. Dalby, and H. B. 

 Dixon, Drs. R. T. Glazebrook 

 and J. A. Harker, Colonel H.C. L. 

 Holden, Professor J. E. Petavel, 

 Captain H. Riall Sankey, Pro- 

 fessor A. Smithells, Professor 

 W. Watson, Mr. D. L. Chapman, 

 and Mr. H. E. Wimperis. 



-ANTHROPOLOGY. 



Chairman. — Dr. R. Munro. 

 Secretary. — Professor W. Boyd 



Dawkins. 

 Professor W. Ridgeway, Sir Arthur 



J. Evans, Dr. C. H. Read, Mr. 



H. Balfour, and Dr. A. Bulleid. 



Chairman. — Dr. C. H. Read. 



Secretary. — Mr. H. Balfour. 



Dr. G. A. Auden, Lord Avebury, 

 Professor W. Ridgeway, Dr. J. G. 

 Garson, Sir A. J. Evans, Dr. R. 

 Munro, Professor Boyd Daw- 

 kins, and Mr. A. L. Lewis. 



£ 

 20 



a. d. 

 



10 



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2o 



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1 It was subsequently ascertained that this work had been carried out else- 

 where, and the Committee was dissolved. 



