RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. li 



Recommendations adopted by the General Committee at the Plymouth 

 Meeting in August 1877. 



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

 except tbere 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 William Thomson, Mr. James Glaisher, 

 and Mr. J. W. L. Glaisher (Secretary), be reappointed ; and that the sum of 

 £100 be placed at their disposal for the purpose of calculating a Factor Table 

 of the fourth million, as a continuation of Burckhardt's tables which extend 

 from 1 to 3,000,000. 



That the Committee, consisting of Professor G. Forbes and Professor Sir 

 William Thomson, for the purpose of making arrangements for the taking of 

 certain observations in India, be reappointed with the addition of the name 

 of Professor Everett ; and that the sum of £15 be placed at their disposal in 

 order to enable them to have observations on Atmospheric Electricity under- 

 taken at Madeira. 



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

 Mr. Charles Brooke, Dr. Flight, and Professor A. S. Herschel, on Luminous 

 Meteors, be reappointed; and that the sum of £10 be placed at their dis- 

 posal. 



That the Committee, consisting of Dr. Joule, Professor Sir W. Thomson, 

 Professor Tait, Professor Balfour Stewart, and Professor J. Clerk Maxwell, 

 for effecting the Determination of the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, be 

 reappointed ; and that £65, being the portion that has lapsed of the £100 

 granted last year, be renewed. 



That the Committee, consisting of Professor Sir William Thomson, Pro- 

 fessor Tait, Professor Grant, Dr. Siemens, and Professor Purser, for the 

 Measurement of the Lunar Disturbance of Gravity, be reappointed ; and that 

 the graut of £50 which has lapsed be renewed. 



That Dr. Crum Brown and Messrs. Dewar, Dittmar, and Dixon be a Com- 

 mittee for the purpose of investigating some Methods that have been recently 

 proposed for the Quantitative Estimation of Atmospheric Ozone ; that Mr. E. 

 M. Dixon be the Secretary, and that the sum of £10 be placed at their 

 disposal for the purpose. 



That Mr. W. Chandler Roberts, Dr. C. R. Alder Wright, and Mr. A. P. 

 Luff be a Committee for the purpose of investigating the Chemical Composi- 

 tion and Structure of some of the less-knowu Alkaloids— Ycratrine and Be- 

 beerine in particular ; that Dr. Wright be the Secretary, and that the sum of 

 £25 be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 



That Dr. J. Evans, Sir John Lubbock, Bart., Mr. E. Vivian, Mr. W. 

 Pengelly, Mr. G. Busk, Professor W. B. Dawkins, Mr. W. A. Sandford, and 

 Mr. J. E. Lee be a Committee for the purpose of continuing the explora- 

 tion of Kent's Cavern, Torquay ; that Mr. Pengelly be the Secretary, and 

 that the sum of £50 be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 



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