RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. lxiii 



Probate, Legacy, and Succession Duty, and the Assessed Taxes ; and that 

 Dr. Hancock be the Secretary. 



That the Committee consisting of Dr. A. W. Williamson, Professor 

 Sir William Thomson, Mr. Bramwell, Mr. St. John Vincent Day, Dr. C. 

 W. Siemens, Mr. C. W. Merrifield, Dr. Neilson Hancock, Professor Abel, 

 Mr. J. R. Napier, Captain Douglas Galton, Mr. Newmarch, Mr. E. H. 

 Carbutt, Mr. Macrory, and Mr. H. Trueman Wood be reappointed, for 

 the purpose of watching and reporting to the Council on Patent Legis- 

 lation ; and that Mr. F. J. Bramwell be the Secretary. 



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



the Association. 



That Dr. Dobson's paper " On the Geographical Distribution of the 

 Chiroptera" be printed in extenso among the Reports. 



That the paper by Mr. Bindon B. Stoney, on " Recent Improvements 

 in the Port of Dublin," be printed in extenso among the Reports, with such 

 plans and diagrams as may be deemed necessary by the Council. 



Resolutions referred to the Council for consideration and action if it seem 



desirable. 



That the attention of the Council of the Association be called to the 

 fact that the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Science have 

 been altogether disregarded in the Act lately passed to enable the Trustees 

 of the British Museum to remove the Natural History Collection to South 

 Kensington, and that the Council be requested to take such steps in the 

 matter as they shall think most desirable in the interests of science. 



That the question of the reappointment of the Committee, consisting 

 of the Rev. H. F. Barnes, Mr. Spence Bate, Mr. H. B. Dresser (Secretary), 

 Mr. J. E. Harting, Dr. Gwyn Jeffreys, Professor Newton, the Rev. Canon 

 Tristram, and Mr. G. Shaw Lefevre, for the purpose of inquiring into the 

 possibility of establishing a " close time," for the protection of indigenous 

 animals, be referred to the Council for consideration ; and that the Council 

 be empowered to take such steps in the matter as they shall think most 

 desirable in the interests of science. 



That the question of the appointment of a Committee, consisting of 

 Mr. James Dillon, Mr. Edward Easton, Mr. P. Le Neve Foster, Captain 

 Douglas Galton, Mr. T. Hawksley, Sir John Hawkshaw, Professor Hull, 

 Mr. Robert Manning, Professor Prestwich, Professor Ramsay, Mr. C. E. 

 De Ranee, the Earl of Rosse, Mr. W. Shelford, Mr. J. N. Shoolbredj 

 Mr. John Smyth, jun., Mr. G. J. Symons, and Mr. A. T. Atchison 

 (Secretary), for the purpose of conferring with the Council as to 

 the advisability of urging Government to take immediate action to pro- 

 cure unity of control of each of our principal river basins, be referred to 

 the Council for consideration and action if it seem desirable. 



