Ivi BEPOiiT — 1875. 



a Committee for tlie purpose of collecting and suggesting subjects for Che- 

 mical Researches ; that Dr. Atkinson be the Secretary. 



That E. B. Grantham, C.E., F.G.S., Professor A. W. WiUiamson, F.R.S., 

 Dr. Gilbert, F.R.S., Professor Corfield, M.D., F. J. Bramwell, C.E., F.R.S., 

 W. Hope, V.C, and J. W. Barry, C.E., be a Committee for the purpose of con- 

 tinuing the investigations on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage ; that 

 Dr. Corfield be the Secretary. 



That Professor Prestwich, Professor Harkness, Professor Hughes, Professor 

 W. Boyd Dawkins, Rev. H. W. Crosskey, Messrs. L. C. Miall, G. H. Morton, 



D. Mackintosh, R. H. Tiddeman, J. E. Lee, T. Plant, W. Pengelly, and Dr. 

 Deane be a Committee for the purpose of recording the position, height 

 above the sea, lithological characters, size, and origin of the Erratic Blocks 

 of England, Wales, and Ireland, reporting other matters of interest con- 

 nected with the same, and taking measures for their preservation ; that the 

 Rev. H. W. Crosskey be the Secretary. 



That Mr. Spence Bate be requested to continue his Report on our present 

 knowledge of the Crustacea. 



That Mr. J. J. Hubbard, M.P., Mr. Chadwick, M.P„ Mr. Morley, M.P., 

 Dr. Farr, Mr. Hallett, Professor Jcvons, Mr. Nowmarch, Professor Leone 

 Levi, Mr. Heywood, Mr. Shaen (with power to add to their number) be a 

 Committee for the purpose of considering and reporting on the practicability 

 of adopting a Common Measure of Value in the Assessment of Direct Taxa- 

 tion, Local and Imperial, and that Mr. Hallett be the Secretary. 



That the Committee, consisting of Lord Houghton, Professor Thorold 

 Rogers, W.Newmarch, Professor Fawcett, M.P., Jacob Behreus, F. P. Fellows, 

 R. H. Inglis Palgrave, Archibald Hamilton, Rev. Dr. Percival, Mr. F. 

 Bennoch, Mr. T. Sopwith, F.R.S., Mr. Morley, M.P., and Mr. Chadwick, 

 M.P., on Capital and Labour, be reappointed ; that Professor Leone Levi 

 be the Secretary. 



That the Metric Committee, consisting of James Heywood, M.A., F.R.S., 

 Lord O'Hagan, Sir W. Armstrong, F.R.S., William Farr, M.D., D.C.L., 

 F.R.S., John Beddoe, M.D.. F.R.S., Dr. Mouat, P. Hallett, M.A., Professor 

 Hennessy, F.R.S., W. P. Price, Rev. Dr. Percival, Frank P. FcUows, F.S.S., 

 C. W. Siemens, F.R.S., Professor A. W. Williamson, F.R.S.j and Professor 

 Leone Levi, be reappointed for the purpose of reporting upon the best means 

 of providing uniformity of weights and measures with reference to the in- 

 terests of science ; that Professor Leone Levi be the Secretary. 



That the Committee, consisting of Professor Cayley, Mr. J. W. L. Glaisher, 

 Dr. W. Pole, Mr. C. W. Merrifleld, Professor Fuller, Mr. H. M. Brunei, and 

 Professor 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 for the purpose of considering the use of steel for 

 structural purposes be reappointed, consisting of Mr. W. Barlow, Mr. H. 

 Bessemer, Mr. F. J. Bramwell, Captain Douglas Galton, Sir John Hawk- 

 shaw, Dr. C. W. Siemens, Professor Abel, and Mr. E. H. Carbutt ; that Mr. 



E. H. Carbutt be the Secretary. 



That the Committee for considering and reporting upon British Measures, 

 consisting of Mr. F. J. Bramwell, Mr. J. R. Napier, Mr. C. W. Merrifield, 

 Sir John Hawkshaw, and Professor Osborne Reynolds, be reappointed. 



That Sir WiUiam Thomson, Major-General Strachey, Captain Douglas 

 Galton, Mr. G. F. Deacon, Mr. Rogers Field, Mr. E. Roberts, and Mr. James 

 N. Shoolbred be a Committee for the purpose of considering the Datum-kvcl 



