RECOMMENDATIONS ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. lxix 



Recommendations adopted by the General Committee at the 

 Sheffield Meeting in August 1879. 



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

 Secretary, except there is a specific nomination.] 



Involving Grants of Money. 



That a Committee, consisting of Dr. 0. J. Lodge (Secretary), Mr. W. 

 E. Ayrton, and Professor J. Perry, be appointed for the purpose of de- 

 vising and constructing an improved form of High Insulation Key for 

 Electrometer Work, and that the sum of 101. be placed at their disposal. 



That the Committee, consisting of Captain Abney (Secretary), Pro- 

 fessor W. G. Adams, and Professor G. C. Foster, be reappointed to carry 

 out an investigation for the purpose of fixing a Standard of White Light ; 

 and that the sum of 20?. be placed at their disposal. 



That the Committee, consisting of Professor Everett (Secretary), 

 Professor Sir William Thomson, Professor J. Clerk Maxwell, Mr. G. J. 

 Symons, Professor Ramsay, Professor Geikie, Mr. J. Glaisher, Mr. Pen- 

 gelly, Professor Edward Hull, Professor Ansted, Dr. Clement Le Neve 

 Poster, Professor A. S. Herschel, Mr. G. A. Lebour, Mr. A. B. Wynne, 

 Mr. Galloway, Mr. Joseph Dickinson, and Mr. G. F. Deacon, on Under- 

 ground Temperature, be reappointed ; and that the sum of 101. be placed 

 at their disposal. 



That the Committee, consisting of Dr. Joule (Secretary), Professor 

 Sir William Thomson, Professor Tait, Professor Balfour Stewart, and 

 Professor J . Clerk Maxwell, for effecting the Determination of the Me- 

 chanical Equivalent of Heat be reappointed ; and that the sum of 52Z. 4s. 6d., 

 being the amount remaining unexpended of a sum of 651., granted last 

 year, be regranted. 



That the Committee, consisting of Professor Sir William Thomson 

 (Secretary), Professor Clerk Maxwell, Professor Tait, Dr. C. W. Siemens, 

 Mr. F. J. Bramwell, and Mr. J. T. Bottomley, for continuing secular ex- 

 periments upon the Elasticity of Wires be reappointed ; and that the sum 

 •of 50L be placed at their disposal. 



That the Committee on Luminous Meteors, consisting of Mr. James 

 Glaisher (Secretary), Dr. Flight, Professor R. S. Ball, Mr. E. J. Lowe, 

 and Professor A. S. Herschel, be reappointed ; and that the sum of 30Z. 

 be placed at their disposal. 



That the Committee, consisting of Professor Sir William Thomson, 

 Professor Tait, Professor Grant, Dr. Siemens, Professor Purser, Professor 

 G. Forbes, Mr. Horace Darwin, and Mr. G. H. Darwin (Secretary), for 

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

 and that the grant of SOI., which has lapsed, be renewed. 



That the Committee, consisting of Professor Sylvester (Secretary), 

 Professor Cayley, and Professor Salmon, for the purpose of calculating 

 Tables of the Fundamental Invariants of Algebraic Forms, be reappointed ; 

 and that the sum of 501. be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 



