Ivi REPOET — 1876. 



Hesolution referred to the Council for consideration and action if it seem 



desirable. 



That the Council be requested to consider, and to take stdps if they think 

 it desirable, to urge upon H.M. Government the advisability of forming a 

 Museum of Scientific Instruments and Chemical Products, as suggested irt 

 the Memorial presented in June last to the Lord President of H.M. Council. 



That the arrangement of the Journal of Sectional Proceedings be altered, - 

 and that the list of the papers to bo read on the day of issue be placed 

 before the list of papers read on the previous day. 



That in future the Presidents-elect of the various Sections be invited to 

 confer with the General Secretary, preparatory to the issuing of the first 

 number of the Journal, to arrange the order in which the Sectional Addresses 

 should be delivered, so as to afford opportunity to tho Members of the Asso- 

 ciation to attend the several Addresses in those subjects in which they may 

 be interested, and that the order in which the Addresses are to be read bo 

 announced in the first number of the Journal. 



Communiaitions ordered to he ]irinted in extenso in the Annual Report of 



the Association. 



That Professor James Thomson's paper, " Improved Investigations on the 

 Flow of Water through Orifices, with objections to the Modes of Treatment 

 commonly adopted," be printed in extenso in the Reports of the Association. 



That Mr. W. J. Janssen's paper, " Nitrous Oxide in the Gaseous and 

 Liquid States," bo printed in extenso in the Reports of the Association. 



That the paper by Mr. G. Chrystal and Mr. S. A. Saunder, " On a Com- 

 parison of the B.A. Standards of Electrical Resistance," be printed in extenso 

 among the Reports. 



That the paper by Professor Osborne Rej'nolds, " On the Investigation of 

 the Steering-qualities of Ships," be printed in extenso in the Reports of the 

 Association together -with the necessary Plates. 



