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RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE GENERAL COMMITTED. liti 
That Colonel Lane Fox, Dr. Beddoe, Mr. Franks, Mr. F. Galton, Mr. 
E. W. Brabrook, Sir J. Lubbock, Sir Walter Elliot, Mr. C. R. Markham, Mr. 
E. B. Tylor, Mr. J. Evans, and Mr. F. W. Rudler be reappointed a Committee 
for the purpose of preparing and publishing brief forms of instruction for 
travellers, ethnologists, and other anthropological observers; that Colonel 
Lane Fox be the Secretary, and that the sum of £20 be placed at their dis- 
posal for the purpose. 
That Dr. Brunton and Dr. Pye-Smith be a Committee for the purpose of 
investigating the nature of Intestinal Secretion; that Dr. Brunton be the 
Secretary, and that the sum of £20 be placed at their disposal for the pur- 
pose, 
That Major Wilson and Mr. Ravenstein be a Committee for the purpose of 
furthering the Palestine explorations; and that the sum of £100 be placed 
at their disposal, to be expended on behalf of the Topographical Survey, and 
especially in ascertaining the level of the Sea of Galilee and the fall of the 
river Jordan. 
That the Committee, consisting of Lord Houghton, Professor Thorold 
Rogers, W: Newmarch, Professor Fawcett, M.P., Jacob Behrens, F. P. Fellows, 
R. H. Inglis Palgrave, Archibald Hamilton, and 8. Brown, on Capital and 
Labour, be reappointed; that Professor Leone Levi be the Secretary, and 
that the sum of £25 be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 
That the Committee on instruments for measuring the speed of ships be 
reappointed ; that it consist of the following Members :——Mr. W. Froude, Mr. 
F. J. Bramwell, Mr. A. E. Fletcher, Rey. E. L. Berthon, Mr. James R. Napier, 
Mr. C. W. Merrifield, Dr. C. W. Siemens, Mr. H. M. Brunel, Mr. W. Smith, 
Sir William Thomson, and Mr. J. N. Shoolbred; that Professor James Thomson 
-be added to the Committee; that Mr. J. N. Shoolbred be the Secretary, and 
that the sum of £50 be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 
Applications for Reports and Researches not involving Grants of Money. 
That the Committee, consisting of Dr. Huggins, Dr. De La Rue, Mr. J. 
N. Lockyer, Dr. Reynolds, Mr. Spottiswoode, Mr. G. J. Stoney, and Mr, W. 
M. Watts, on Wave Numbers be reappointed. 
That Mr. Spottiswoode, Professor Stokes, Professor Cayley, Professor Clif- 
ford, and Mr. J. W. L. Glaisher be appointed a Committee to report on 
Mathematical Notation and printing, with the view of leading mathematicians 
to prefer in optional cases such forms as are more easily put into type, and 
of promoting uniformity of notation. 
That Mr. W. H. L. Russell be requested to continue his Report on recent 
progress in the Theory of Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Functions. 
That the Committee on Underground Temperature, consisting of Professor 
Everett (Secretary), Professor Sir W. Thomson, Sir Charles Lyell, Bart., Pro- 
fessor J. Clerk Maxwell, Mr. G. J. Symons, Professor Ramsay, Professor 
Geikie, Mr. J. Glaisher, Rev. Dr. Graham, Mr. George Maw, Mr. Pengelly, 
Mr. 8. J. Mackie, Professor Edward Hull, Professor Ansted, and Dr. Clement 
Le Neve Foster, be reappointed. 
- That the Committee on Teaching Physics in Schools be reappointed, with 
the addition of the names of Professor J. Clerk Maxwell, Mr. J. Perry, and 
Mr. G. F. Rodwell. 
. That the Committee on Tides, consisting of Professor Sir W. Thomson, 
Professor J. ©. Adams, Mr. J. Oldham, Rear-Admiral Richards, General 
Strachey, Mr. W. Parkes, Mr. Webster, and Colonel Walker, be reappointed, 
