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RESEARCH COMMITTEES. 



2. Not receiving Grants of Money. 



Subject for Investigation, or Purpose 



Members of Committee 



Suction A.— MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS. 



Making 1 Experiments for improving 

 the Construction of Practical Stan- 

 dards for use in Electrical Measure- 

 ments. 



Chairman. — Lord Rayleigh. 



Secretary. — Dr. R. T. Glazebrook. 



Professors J. Perry and W. G. Adams, Dr. 

 G. Carey Foster, Sir Oliver Lodge, Dr. 

 A. Muirhead, Sir W. H. Preece, Pro- 

 fessor A. Schuster, Dr. J. A. Fleming, 

 Professor Sir J. J. Thomson, Dr. W. N. 

 Shaw, Dr. J. T. Bottomley, Rev. T. C. 

 Fitzpatrick, Professor S. P. Thompson, 

 Mr. J. Rennie, Principal E. H. Griffiths, 

 Sir Arthur Riicker, Professor H. L. 

 Callendar, and Messrs. G. Matthey, 

 T. Mather, and F. E. Smith. 



Section C— GEOLOGY. 



The Collection, Preservation, and Sys- 

 tematic Registration of Photographs 

 of Geological Interest. 



Chairman. — Professor J. Geikie. 



Secretaries. — Professors W. W. Watts and 

 S. H. Reynolds. 



Dr. T. Anderson, Mr. G. Bingley, Dr. T. 

 G. Bonney, Mr. C. V. Crook, Professor 

 E. J. Garwood, and Messrs. W. Gray, 

 R. Kidston, A. S. Reid, J. J. H. Teall, 

 R. Welch, W. Whitaker, and H. B. 

 Woodward. 



To enable Mr. E. Greenly to complete Chairman. — Mr. A. Harker. 



liis Researches on the Composition Secretary. — Mr. E. Greenly, 



and Origin of the Crystalline Rocks Dr. J. Home, Dr. C. A. Matley, and 



of Anglesey. Professor K. J. P. Oiton. 



Section D.— ZOOLOGY. 



To investigate the Feeding Habits of 

 British Birds by a study of the 

 contents of the crops and gizzards 

 of both adults and nestlings, and by 

 collation of observational evidence, 

 with the object of obtaining precise 

 knowledge as to the economic status 

 of many of our commoner birds 

 affecting rural science. 



To continue the Investigation of the 

 Zoology of the Sandwich Islands, 

 with power to co-operate with the 

 Committee appointed for the purpose 

 by the Royal Society, and to avail 

 themselves of such assistance in their 

 investigations as may be offered by 

 the Hawaiian Government or the 

 Trustees of the Museum at Honolulu. 

 The Committee to have power to dis- 

 pose of specimens where advisable. 



Chairman. — Dr. A. E. Shipley. 



Secretary. — Mr. H. S. Leigh. 



Messrs. J. N. Halbert, Robert New- 

 stead, Clement Reid, A. G. L. Rogers, 

 and F. V. Theobald. Professor F. E. 

 Weiss, Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, and 

 Professors S. J. Hickson, F. W. Gam- 

 ble, G. II. Carpenter, and J. Arthur 

 Thomson. 



Cliairman. — Dr. F. Du Cane Godman. 

 Secretary. — Dr. David Sharp. 

 Professor S. J. Hicksop, Dr. P. L. Sclater, 

 and Mr. Edgar A. Smith. 



