lxxiv REPORT— 1879. 



That Sir George Campbell, M.P., Lord O'Hagan, Mr. Morley, M.P., 

 Mr. Heywood, Mr. Chadwick, M.P., Mr. Shaw Lefevre, M.P.,Mr. Hallett, 

 Professor Jevons, Dr. Farr, Mr. Stephen Bourne, Mr. Hammick, Professor 

 Leone Levi, Professor J. K. Ingram, Dr. Hancock, Mr. J. T. Pirn, and 

 Professor Adamson (with power to add to their number) be a Committee 

 for the purpose of continuing the researches into the Incidence of Direct 

 Taxation, with special reference to Probate, Legacy, and Succession Duty, 

 and the Assessed Taxes ; and that Professor Adamson be the Secretary. 



That Mr. Mundella, M.P., Mr. James Heywood, Mr. Stephen Bourne, Mr. 

 Charles Doncaster, the Rev. A. Bourne, Mr. Taiso Masaki, Mr. Constantine 

 Molloy, Mr. R. J. Pye-Smith, Dr. Hancock, and Mr. Robert Wilkinson 

 (with power to add to their number) be a Committee for the purpose of 

 considering and reporting on the German and other Systems of teaching 

 the Deaf to speak ; and that Mr. Robert Wilkinson be the Secretary. 



That Professor Leone Levi, Mr. Stephen Bourne, Mr. Brittain, Dr. 

 Neilson Hancock, Professor Jevons, and Mr. Fellows (with power to add to 

 the number) be a Committee for the purpose of inquiring into the present 

 appropriation of wages and sources of income, and considering how far it 

 ia consonant with the economic progress of the people of the United 

 Kingdom ; and that Professor Leone Levi be the Secretary. 



That Mr. Mundella, M.P., Mr. Shaen, Mr. Stephen Bourne, Mr. James 

 Heywood, Mr. Wilkinson, and Dr. J. H. Gladstone (with power to add 

 to their number) be a Committee for the purpose of reporting whether 

 it is important that H.M. Inspectors of Elementary Schools should be 

 appointed with reference to their ability for examining the scientific 

 specific subjects of the code in addition to other matters ; and that Dr. 

 J. H. Gladstone be the Secretary. 



That the Committee on Tidal Observations in the English Channel and 

 in the North Sea, consisting of Sir William Thomson, Dr. J. Merrifield, 

 Professor Osborne Reynolds, Captain Douglas Galton, and Mr. James N. 

 Shoolbred, be reappointed, with power to add to their number, and to 

 communicate, if necessary, with the Government ; that Mr. J. F. Deacon 

 and Mr. Rogers Field be added to the Committee ; and that Mr. James N. 

 Shoolbred be the Secretary. 



Communications ordered to be printed in extenso in the Annual Report of 



the Association. 



That the paper by Mr. Godwin- Austen, ' On some further evidence 

 relating to the Range of the Palaeozoic Rocks beneath the South-East of 

 England,' be printed in extenso among the Reports. 



That Lieutenant Temple's paper, entitled ' Hydrography past and 

 present,' be printed in extenso among the Reports, with an outline map 

 to a scale to be settled by the editor. 



That the paper by Mr. Rogers Field, ' On Self-acting Intermittent 

 Siphons,' be printed in extenso among the Reports, with the necessary 

 diagrams. 



Resolution referred to the Council for consideration, and action if it seem 



desirable. 



That the Council be requested to take such further action as regards 

 the correspondence with the Treasury about the Natural History Collec- 

 tions as they shall think desirable in the interests of Science. 



