lii liEPOiiT — 1875. 



The Council have been informed that the invitation to hold the Annual 

 Meeting of the Association in 1877 at Plymouth will be renewed, and that 

 an invitation for a future Meeting will be presented from Leeds. 



In accordance with the regulations adopted at the Belfast Meeting for the 

 selection of Ordinary Members of Council, the Council append a list of the 

 Members of the present Council who are not proposed for re-election for the 

 ensuing year : — 



Mr. Sclater. 



Dr. Beddoe. 

 Dr. Debus. 

 Mr. Fitch. 



General Strachey. 



The Council recommend the re-election of the other Members of the Council, 

 with the addition of the following gentlemen : — 



Mr. F. A. Abel. 

 Mr. John Evans. 

 Mr. J. Heywood. 



Professor A. Newton. 

 Professor Rolleston. 



Recommendations adopted by the General Committee at the Bristol 

 Meeting in August 1875. 



[Wlien 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), be reappointed ; that the sum of ^59 4s. 2d. be placed 

 at their disposal as a final payment on account of expenses incurred in the 

 calculation of the Elliptic Functions, and that a further sum of £100 be 

 placed at the disposal of the Committee for the purpose of continuing the 

 printing of the tables of Elhptie Functions. 



That the Committee on the PainfaU of the British Isles, consisting of Mr. 



C. Brooke, Mr. J. Glaisher, Mr. J. F. Bateman,-Mr. T. Hawksley, Mr. G. J. 

 Symons, Mr. C. Tomlinson, Mr. Rogers Field, the Earl of Eosse, and Mr, 

 J. Smyth, Jun., be reappointed ; that Mr. G. J. Symons be the Secretary, 

 and that the sum of £100 be placed at their disposal for the purpose, with 

 the understanding that £60 is for completing the observations in Great 

 Britain, and that £40 be devoted to observations in Ireland. 



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

 Mr. Charles Brooke, Dr. Flight, Professor G. Forbes, and Professor A. S. 

 Herschel, on Luminous Meteors, be reappointed, and that a grant of £30 

 be placed at their disposal. 



That the Committee, consisting of Professor Clerk Maxwell, Professor J. 



D. Everett, and Mr. A. Schuster, for testing experimentally the exactness 

 of Ohm's law, be reappointed, and that the grant of £50 which has lapsed 

 be renewed. 



That the Committee, consisting of Professor Stokes, Dr. De La Rue, Pro- 



