Ixviii BEPORT — 1881. 



Mr. Pearson Hill, Mr. Geo. Baden Powell, and Mr. Jeremiah Head be re- 

 appointed a Committee for the purpose of continuing the inquiry into and 

 completing the report upon the appropriation of wages and other sources 

 of income, and considering how far it is consonant with the economic 

 progress of the United Kingdom ; and that Professor Leone Levi be 

 the Secretary. 



That the Committee on Science Teaching in Elementary Schools, con- 

 sisting of Mr. James Heywood, Mr. Shaen, Mr. Stephen Bourne, Mr. 

 Eobert Wilkinson, the Rev. W. Delany, Professor Maskelyne, Dr. 

 Silvanus P. Thompson, Miss Lydia B. Becker, Sir John Lubbock, 

 Professor A. W. Williamson, Mrs. Augusta Webster, and Dr. Gladstone 

 (Secretary), with power to add to their number, be reappointed for the 

 ensuing year to watch and report on the workings of the proposed 

 Eevised New Code and of other legislation affecting the teaching of 

 science in elementary schools. 



That Sir Joseph Whitworth, Dr. Siemens, Sir F. J. Bramwell, Mr. 

 A. Stroh, Mr. Beck, Mr. W. H. Preece, Mr. E. Crompton, Mr. B. Rigg, 

 Mr. A. Le Neve Foster, Mr. Latimer Clark, Mr. H. Trueman Wood, and 

 Mr. Buckney be a Committee for the purpose of determining a gauge for 

 the manufacture of the various small screws used in Telegraphic and 

 Electrical Apparatus, in Clockwork, and for other analogous purposes; 

 and that Mr. H. Trueman Wood be the Secretary. 



That Sir Frederick Bramwell, Dr. A. W. Williamson, Professor 

 Sir William Thomson, Mr. St. John Vincent Day, Dr. C. W. Siemens, 

 Mr. C. W. Merrifield, Dr. Neilson Hancock, Mr. Abel, Captain Douglas 

 Galton, Mr. Newmarch, Mr. B. H. Carbutt, Mr. Macrory, Mr. H. 

 Trueman Wood, Mr. W. H. Barlow, and Mr. A. T. Atchison be re- 

 appointed a Committee for the purpose of watching and reporting to 

 the Council on Patent Legislation ; and that Sir Frederick Bramwell be 

 the Secretary. 



That the Committee, consisting of Mr. James Glaisher, Mr. C. W. 

 Merrifield, Sir F. J. Bramwell, Professor O. Reynolds, Professor W. 

 Cawthorne Unwin, Mr. Rogers Field, and Mr. A. T. Atchison be reap- 

 pointed to consider and report upon the best means of ascertaining the 

 effective Wind Pressures to which buildings and structures are ex- 

 posed ; and that Mr. A. T. Atchison be the Secretary. 



Gomimmications ordered to he printed in extenso in the Annual Report of 



the Association. 



Professor Halphen's paper, ' Sur les Series Hypergeometriques,' and 

 that of Professor Sturm, ' On some New Theorems on Curves of Double 

 Curvature.' 



Mr. Whipple's paper, ' On Observations of Atmospheric Electricity at 

 the Kew Observatory during 1880.' 



Professor Tyndall's paper ' On the Arrestation of Infusorial Life by 

 Solar Light.' 



Dr. S. Haughton's paper, ' On the Effects of Oceanic Currents upon 

 Climates.' 



Professor W. G. Adams's paper, ' On Magnetic Disturbances.' 



Dr. C. W. Siemens' paper, ' On some Applications of Electric Energy 

 to Horticulture and Agriculture.' 



Professor Bayley Balfour's paper, ' On the Island of Socotra.' 



