BECOMMEHDATIONS ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. Ixiii 



Not involving Grants of Money. 



That Professor G. Carey Foster, Sir William Thomson, Professor 

 Ayrton, Professor J. Perry, Professor W. G. Adams, Lord Rayleigh, 

 Professor Jenkin, Dr. O. J. Lodge, Dr. John Hopkinson, Dr. A. Muir- 

 head, Mr. W. H. Preece, Mr. Herbert Taylor, Professor Everett, and 

 Professor Schnster be reappointed a Committee for the purpose of con- 

 structing and issuing practical Standards for use in Electrical Measiire- 

 ments, with the addition of the names of Dr. C. W. Siemens, Dr. J. A. 

 Fleming, Professor G. F. Fitzgerald, Mr. R,. T. Glazebrook, and Professor 

 Chrystal ; and that Dr. Muirhead be the Secretary. 



That Professor Sylvester, Professor Cayley, and Pi'ofessor Salmon 

 be reappointed a Committee for the purpose of Calculating Tables of 

 the Fundamental Invariants of Algebraic Forms ; and that Professor 

 Sylvester be the Secretary. 



That Professor Schuster, Sir William Thomson, Professor H. E. 

 Roscoe, Professor A. S. Herschel, Captain W. de W. Abney, Mr. R. H. 

 Soott, and Dr. J. H. Gladstone be reappointed a Committee for the purpose 

 of investigating the practicability of collecting and identifying Meteoric 

 Dust, and of considering the question of undertaking regular observa- 

 tions in various localities ; and that Professor Schuster be the Secretary. 



That Mr. Spottiswoode, Professor Stokes, Professor Cayley, Professor 

 Smith, Sir William Thomson, Professor Henrici, Lord Rayleigh, and 

 Mr. J. W. L. Glaisher be reappointed a Committee on Mathematical 

 Notation and Printing ; and that Mr. J. W. L. Glaisher be the Sec- 

 retary. 



That Professor Cayley, Professor Stokes, Professor H. J. S. Smith, 

 Sir William Thomson, Mr. James Glaisher, and Mr. J. W. L. Glaisher 

 be reappointed a Committee on Mathematical Tables ; and that Mr. 

 J. W. L. Glaisher be the Secretary. 



That Captain Abney, Professor W. G. Adams, Professor G. C. Foster, 

 Lord Rayleigh, Mr. Preece, Professor Schuster, Professor Dewar, Pro- 

 fessor Vernon Harcourt, and Professor Ayrton be reappointed a Com- 

 mittee for the purpose of fixing a Standard of White Light ; and that 

 Captain Abney be the Secretary. 



That Captain Abney, Professor Stokes, and Professor Schuster be a 

 Committee for the purpose of determining the best experimental methods 

 that can be used in observing total Solar Eclipses ; and that Professor 

 Schuster be the Secretary. 



That Professor Roscoe, Mr. Lockyer, Professor Dewar, Professor 

 Liveing, Professor Schuster, Captain Abney, and Dr. Marshall Watts be 

 reappointed a Committee for the purpose of preparing a new series of 

 Wave-lengths Tables of the S^DCctra of the Elements ; and that Dr. 

 Marshall Watts be the Secretary, 



That Prof essoins Williamson, Prankland, Roscoe, Crum Brown, and 

 Odling, and Messrs. J. Millar Thomson, V. H. Veley, and H. B. Dixon 

 be a Committee for the purpose of drawing up a statement of the 

 varieties of Chemical Names which have come into use, for indicating: 

 the causes which have led to their adoption, and for considering what can 

 be done to bring about some convergence of the views on Chemical 

 Nomenclature obtaining among English and foreign chemists ; and that 

 Mr. H. B. Dixon be the Secretary. 



That Professors Dewar and A. W. Williamson, Dr. Marshall Watts, 



