RECOMMENDATIONS ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. Ixvii 



of continuing Secular Experiments on the Elasticity of Wires ; xi that 

 Mr. Bottomley be the Secretary. 



That Mr. Spottiswoode, Professor Stokes, Professor Cayley. i lofessor 

 Smith, Sir William Thomson, Professor Henrici, Lord Rayleigh, and 

 Mr. J. W. L. Glaisher be a Committee on Mathematical Notation and 

 Printing ; and that Mr. J. W. L. Glaisher be the Secretary. 



That Professor Cayley, Professor Stokes, Professor H. J. S. Smith, 

 Sir William Thomson, Mr. James Glaisher, and Mr. J. W. L. Glaisher 

 be a Committee on Mathematical Tables ; and that Mr. J. W. L. Glaisher 

 be the Secretary. 



That Professor W. B. Ayrton, Dr. 0. J. Lodge, Mr. J. E. H. Gordon, 

 and Mr. John Perry be a Committee for the purpose of actually measur- 

 ing the specific inductive capacity of a good Sprengel Vacuum, and the 

 specific resistance of gases at diflFereut pressures ; and that Professor W. 

 E. Ayrton be the Secretary. 



That Professor Everett, Sir William Thomson, Mr. G. J. Symons, 

 Professor Ramsay, Professor Geikie, Mr. J. Glaisher, Mr. Pengelly, Pro- 

 fessor E. Hull, Dr. C. Le Neve Foster, Professor A. S. Herschel, Mr. G. 

 A. Lebour, Mr. A. B. Wynne, Mr. Galloway, Mr. Joseph Dickinson, 

 Mr. G. F. Deacon, and Mr. A. Strahan be a Committee for the purpose 

 of making determinations of Underground Temperature ; and that Pro- 

 fessor Everett be the Secretary. 



That Professor J. Prestwich, Professor T. McK. Hughes, Professor 

 W. Boyd Dawkins, Professor T. G. Bonney, the Rev. H. W. Crosskey, 

 Dr. Deane, and Messrs. C. E. De Ranee, D. Mackintosh, R. H. Tiddeman, 

 J. E. Lee, James Plant, W. Pengelly, W. Molyneux, H. G. Fordham, and 

 W. Terrill be reappointed a Committee for the purpose of recording the 

 position, height above the sea, lithological characters, size, and origin 

 of the Erratic Blocks of England, Wales, and Ireland, reporting other 

 matters of interest connected with the same, and taking measures for 

 their preservation ; and that the Rev. H. W. Crosskey be the Secretary. 



That Professor H. G. Seeley be requested to report on the Organisa- 

 tion of the Plesiosauria. 



That Mr. C. E. De Ranee, Sir John Hawkshaw, and Messrs. R. B. 

 Grantham, J. B. Redman, W. Topley, J. W. Woodall, and W. Whitaker 

 be a Committee for the purpose of inquiring into the rate of Erosion 

 of the Sea-coasts of England and Wales, and the influence of the artificial 

 abstraction of shingle and other material on that action ; and that 

 Mr. W. Topley be the Secretary. 



That Mr. R. Meldola, General Pitt- Rivers, and Mr. Wm. Cole be a 

 Committee for the purpose of investigating the ancient earthwork in 

 Epping Forest known as Loughton Camp ; and that Mr, W. Cole be the 

 Secretary. 



That Dr. Gwyn Jeffreys, Mr. Percy B. Sladen, and Sir Wyville Thom- 

 son be a Committee for the purpose of a Zoological Exploration of the 

 Sea-bed lying north of the Hebrides ; and that Dr. Gwyn JeS'reys be the 

 Secretary. 



That Mr. J. Glaisher, the Rev. Canon Tristram, and the Rev. F. Law- 

 rence be a Committee for the purpose of promoting the survey of Eastern 

 Palestine now on foot under the management of the Palestine Exploration 

 Fund ; and that Mr. J. Glaisher be the Secretary. 



That Professor Leone Levi, Mr. Stephen Bourne, Dr. Hancock, Sir 

 Antonio Brady, Professor Jevons, Mr. F. P. Fellows, Mr. E J. Watherston, 



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