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Recommendations Adopted by the General Committee at the. 

 YoEK Meeting in August and September, 1881. 



[VVheu Committees are appointed, the Member first named is regarded as the 

 Secretary, except there is a specilic nomination.] 



Involving Grants of Money. 



That the Council of the Association be requested to communicate with 

 the President and Council of the Royal Geographical Society as to the 

 complete Exploration of the Snowy Mountain District of Eastern 

 Equatorial Africa, and be authorised to subscribe a sum of 1001. towards 

 such exploration. 



That Mr. G. H. Darwin, Sir William Thomson, Professor Tait, 

 Professor Grant, Dr. Siemens, Professor Purser, Professor G. Forbes,, 

 and Mr. Horace Darwin be a Committee for the purpose of Measuring 

 the Lunar Disturbance of Gravity; that Mr, G. H. Darwin be the 

 Secretary, and that the sum of Ibl. be placed at their disposal for the 

 purpose. 



That Professor Schuster, Sir William Thomson, Professor H. E. 

 Roscoe, Professor A. S. Herschel, Captain W. de W. Abney, Mr. R. H. 

 Scott, and Dr. J. H. Gladstone be a Committee for the purpose of inves- 

 tigating the practicability of collecting and identifying Meteoric Dust, 

 and of considering the question of undertaking regular observations in 

 various localities ; that Professor Schuster be the Secretary, and that the- 

 sum of 20?. be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 



That Professor Sylvester, Professor Cayley, and Professor Salmon 

 be a Committee for the purpose of Calculating Tables of the Funda- 

 mental Invariants of Algebraic Forms ; that Professor Sylvester be the 

 Secretary, and that the sum of 807. be placed at their disposal for the 

 purpose. 



That Mr. Robert H. Scott, Mr. J. Norman Lockyer, Professor H. J. 

 S. Smith, Professor G. G. Stokes, Professor Balfour Stewart, and Mr^ 

 G. J. Symons be a Committee for the purpose of co-operating with the 

 Meteorological Society of the Mauritius in their proposed publication 

 of Daily Synoptic Charts of the Indian Ocean from the year 1861 ; that 

 Mr. R. H. Scott be the Secretary, and that the sum of 501. be placed at 

 their disposal for the purpose. 



That Professor G. Carey Foster, Mr. C. Hockin, Sir William 

 Thomson, Professor Ayrton, Mr. J. Perry, Professor W. G. Adams, 

 Lord Rayleigh, Professor P. Jenkin, Dr. O. J. Lodge, Dr. John Hopkin- 

 son, Dr. A. Muirhead, and Mr. W. H. Preece be reappointed a Committee for 

 the purpose of constructing and issuing practical Standards for use in 

 Electrical Measurements ; that the names of Mr. Herbert Taylor, Pro- 



