RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. LV 
Douglas Galton, Sir John Hawkshaw, Dr. C. W. Siemens, Professor Abel, 
and Mr. E. H. Carbutt be a Committee for the purpose of considering what 
steps can be taken in furtherance of the use of steel for structural purposes, 
and that Mr. E. H. Carbutt be the Secretary. 
That Mr. F. J. Bramwell, Mr. J. R. Napier, Mr. C. W. Merrifield, Sir John 
Hawkshaw, Mr. T. Webster, Q.C., and Professor Osborne Reynolds be a 
Committee for the purpose of considering and reporting upon British Measures 
in use for mechanical and other purposes. 
That Mr. F. J. Bramwell, Mr. Hawksley, Mr. Edward Easton, Sir William 
Armstrong, and Mr. W. Hope be a Committee for the purpose of investigating 
and reporting upon the utilization and transmission of wind and water power, 
and that Mr. W. Hope be the Secretary. 
Communications ordered to be printed in extenso in the Annual Report of 
the Association. 
That Mr. Bentham’s Report “On the recent progress and present state of 
systematic Botany, in connexion with the development of the Natural Method 
and the doctrine of Evolution” be printed in ewtenso among the Reports. 
That the lists appended to Mr. Gwyn Jeffreys’s paper in Section D, entitled 
* Additions to the British Mollusca and Notices of rare species from deep 
water off the western coasts of Ireland,” be printed in full. 
That Mr. Froude’s “Report on the resistance of a full-sized ship” be 
printed in the Reports of the Association, together with the necessary 
Plates. 
That Mr. Froude’s paper “ On Surface-friction in Water” (being a con- 
tinuation of the Report on this subject presented ‘at the Brighton Meeting) be 
printed in extenso in the Report, with the necessary Plates. 
That Mr. J. Smyth’s, Jun., M.A., C.E., F.C.S., paper “On the Industrial 
uses of the Upper Bann River” be printed im ewtenso in the Reports of the 
Association. 
That Mr. T. R. Salmond’s paper “On the Belfast Harbour” be printed 
in extenso in the Reports of the Association, together with the necessary 
plans. 
Resolutions referred to the Council for consideration and action if it seem 
desirable. 
That the Council be requested to take such steps as they may deem ex- 
pedient to urge upon the.Government of India the desirableness of continu- 
ing solar observations in India. 
That the Council of the Association be requested to take such steps as they 
may think desirable with a view to promote the appointment of naturalists 
to vessels engaged on the coasts of little-known parts of the world. 
That the Council be requested to take such steps as they may think desir- 
able with the view of promoting any application that may be made to Her 
Majesty’s Government by the Royal Society for a systematic Physical and 
Biological exploration of the seas around the British Isles. 
That the Council should take such steps as they may think desirable for 
supporting the request to Her Majesty’s Government to undertake an Arctic 
Expedition on the. basis proposed by the Council of the Royal Geographical 
Society at the beginning of the present year, which it is understood will be 
again made by that body. 
