liv REPORT—1874, 
That the Committee, consisting of Professor Cayley, Mr. J. W. L. Glaisher, 
Dr. W. Pole, Mr. Merrifield, Professor Fuller, Mr. H. M. Brunel, and Pro- 
fessor W. K. Clifford, be reappointed to estimate the cost of constructing Mr. 
Babbage’s Analytical Engine, and to consider the advisability of printing 
tables by its means. 
That the Committee, consisting of Dr. Joule, Professor Sir W. Thomson, 
Professor Tait, Professor Balfour Stewart, and Professor J. Clerk Maxwell, 
be reappointed to effect the determination of the Mechanical Equivalent of 
Heat. 
That Professor Sylvester, Professor Cayley, Professor Hirst, Rev. Professor 
Bartholomew Price, Professor H. J. 8S. Smith, Dr. Spottiswoode, Mr. R. B. 
Hayward, Dr. Salmon, Rev. R. Townsend, Professor Fuller, Professor Kel- 
land, Mr. J. M. Wilson, and Professor Clifford be reappointed a Committee 
(with power to add to their number) for the purpose of considering the pos- 
sibility of improving the methods of instruction in elementary geometry ; and 
that Professor Clifford be the Secretary. 
That Professors Williamson, Roscoe, and Gladstone, Dr. Carpenter, Sir 
Walter Elliot, and Mr. Lockyer be a Committee for the purpose of report- 
ing on Science-Lectures ; that Professor Roscoe be the Secretary. 
That Dr. Mills, Dr. Boycott, Mr. Gadesden, Mr. Sellon, and Mr. W. Chandler 
Roberts be a Committee for the purpose of investigating the methods of 
making gold assays, and stating the results thereof; that Mr. W. Chandler 
Roberts be the Secretary. 
That Messrs. H, B. Grantham, Bramwell, and W. Hope, Professor Corfield, 
Dr. J. H. Gilbert, and Professor Williamson be a Committee for the purpose 
of continuing the investigations on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage. 
That Professor Harkness, Mr. Prestwich, Professor Hughes, Rey. H. W. 
Crosskey, Messrs. Woodward, Dawkins, Maw, Miall, Morton, Lee, Pengelly, 
Plant, and Tiddeman be a Committee for the purpose of recording the posi- 
tion, height above the sea, lithological characters, size, and origin of the more 
important of the Erratic Blocks of England and Wales, reporting other 
matters of interest connected with the same, and taking measures for their 
preservation ; that the Rev. H. W. Crosskey be the Secretary. 
That Professor Huxley, Mr. Sclater, Mr. F. M. Balfour, Mr. Gwyn Jeffreys, 
Dr. M. Foster, Mr. Ray Lankester, and Mr. Dew Smith be a Committee for 
the purpose of making a report on the Zoological Station at Naples, and that 
Mr. Dew Smith be the Secretary. 
That the Rev. H. F. Barnes, Mr. Dresser, Mr. Harland, Mr. Harting, 
Professor Newton, and the Rey. Canon Tristram be reappointed a Committee 
for the purpose of considering the desirability of establishing “a close time ” 
for the protection of indigenous animals, and for watching Bills introduced 
into Parliament affecting this subject, and that Mr. Dresser be the Secretary. 
That Mr. Spence Bate be requested to draw up a Report on the present 
state of our knowledge of the Crustacea. 
That the Metric Committee be reappointed, consisting of James Heywood, 
M.A., F.R.S., Lord O'Hagan, The Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote, K.C.B., 
M.P., Sir W. Armstrong, F.R.S., Samuel Brown, F.S.8., William Farr, M.D., 
D.C.L., F.R.S., Frank P. Fellows, F.S.8., Archibald Hamilton, F.S.8., Pro- 
fessor Frankland, F.R.S., Professor Hennessy, F.R.S8., Professor Leone Levi, 
F.8.8., C. W. Siemens, F.R.S., Professor A. W. Williamson, F.R.S., Major- 
General Strachey, F.R.S., and Dr. Roberts, and that Samuel Brown, F.S.8., 
be the Secretary. 
That Mr. W. H. Barlow, Mr. H. Bessemer, Mr. F. J. Bramwell, Captain 
