RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. 



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The Council have added the following list of names of gentlemen present 

 at the last Meeting of the Association to the list of Corresponding Members ; — 



M. C. Bergeron. Lausanne. 



Paris. 



Liege. 



Professor E. CrouUebois. 

 Professor G. Devalque. 

 M. "VV. de Fonvielle. Paris. 

 Professor Paul Gervais. Paris. 

 Professor James Hall. Albany, New 

 York. 



Mr. J, E. Hilgard. Coast Survey, 



Washington. 

 M. Georges Lemoine. 



Paris. 

 Eichter. St. 



Professor Victor von 



Petersburg. 

 Professor Carl Semper. "Wiirtzburg. 

 Professor A. Wurtz. Paris. 



The General Committee will remember that Belfast has already been 

 selected as the place of meeting for next year. The Council have been in- 

 formed that invitations to hold subsequent Meetings at Bristol and Glasgow 

 win be presented to the General Committee. 



Kecommendatioxs adopted by the General Committee at the Bradford 

 Meeting in September 1873. 



[When Committees are appointed, the Member first named is regarded as the Secretary, 

 except there is a specific nomination.] 



Involving Grants of Money. 



That the Committee, consisting of Professor Cayley, Professor G. G. Stokes, 

 Professor H. J. S. Smith, Professor Sir W. Thomson, and Mr. J. W. L. Glaisher 

 (Secretary), on Mathematical Tables be reappointed, with a grant of ^100 for 

 the completion of the tabulation of the Elliptic Functions. 



That the sum of £100 be granted to the Committee on Mathematical Tables 

 towards the printing of the tables of the Elliptic Functions that have been 

 calculated by the Committee. 



That Mr. Glaisher, Colonel Strange, Professor Sir W. Thomson, Mr. Brooke, 

 ]\Ir. AYalker, M. de Fonvielle, Professor Zenger, and iCr. Mann (Secretary), 

 be a Committee for the purpose of investigating the efficacy of Lightning- 

 conductors, giving suggestions for their improvement, and reporting upon any 

 case in which a building has been injured by lightning, especially where siich 

 building was ju-ofessedly protected by a lightning-conductor, and that the sum 

 of £50 granted last year, but not expended, be regrantcd to the Committee. 



That a Committee be appointed, consisting of Professor Balfour Stewart, Mr. 

 Glaisher, and Mr. Lockyer, and that a grant of ,£100 be made to them in order 

 to provide assistance to Mr. Meldrum in conducting meteorological researches 

 in Mauritius. 



That Professor Balfour Stewart and Mr. W. F. Barrett be a Committee for 

 the purpose of investigating the magnetization of Iron, Nickel, and Cobalt, 

 and that the sum of £20 be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 



That the Committee for reporting on the Eainfall of the British Isles, con- 

 sisting of Mr. Charles Brooke, Mr. Glaisher, Professor Phillips, Mr. G. J. 

 Symons, Mr. J. F. Bateman, Mr. T. Hawksley, Mr. C. Tomlinson, and Mr. 

 llogers Field, be reappointed ; that Mr. G. J. Symons be the Secretary, and 

 that a grant of £100 be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 



That the Committee, consisting of Mr. James Glaisher, Mr. R. P. Greg, 

 Mr. Charles Brooke, Professor G. Forbes, and Professor A. S. Herschel, be 



