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Captain Abney, 'Mv. Stoney, and Professors W. N. Hartley, McLeod, 

 Carey Foster, A. K. Huntington, Emerson Reynolds, Keinold, Liveing, 

 Lord Rayleigh, Schuster, and W. Chandler Robei'ts be a Committee for 

 the purpose of reporting upon the present state of our knowledge of 

 Spectrum Analysis ; and that Professor W. Chandler Roberts be the 

 Secretary. 



That Professors F. A. Abel, A. K. Huntington. McLeod, Chandler 

 Roberts, W. G. Adams, and Tilden and Mr. F. J. Bateman be a Com- 

 mittee for the purpose of collecting and arranging in a suitable form for 

 reference the already published literature on the subject of Metallic 

 Alloys; and that Professor A. K. Huntington be the Secretary. 



That Professors J. Prestwich, V. Ball, J. W. Judd, and W. J. Sollas 

 and Messrs. W. T. Blanford and W. Topley be a Committee for the pur- 

 pose of inquiring into the possibility of securing the co-operation of 

 foreign geologists in obtaining an International Geological Record ; and 

 that Professor W. J. Sollas be the Secretary. 



That Professors J. Prestwich, W. Boyd Dawkins, T. McK. Hughes, 

 and T. G. Bonney, the Rev. H. W. Crosskey, Dr. Deane, and Messrs. C. E. 

 De Ranee, H. G. Fordham, J. E. Lee, 1). Mackintosh, W. Pengelly, J. 

 Plant, and R. H. Tiddeman be a Committee for the purpose of recording 

 the position, height above the sea, lithological charactei'S, size, and 

 origin of the Erratic Blocks of England, Wales, and Ireland, reporting 

 other matters of interest connected with the same, and taking measures 

 for their preservation ; and that the Rev. H. W. Crosskey be the Secretary. 



That Lieut.-Colonel H. H. Godwin-Austen, Dr. G. Hartlaub, Sir 

 J. Hooker, Dr. Giintlier, Mr. Seebohm, and Mr. Sclater be reappointed a 

 Committee for the purpose of investigating the Natural History of 

 Socotra, and the adjacent Highlands of Arabia and Somali-land; and 

 that Mr. Sclater be the Secretary. 



That the Committee for promoting the Survey of Eastern Palestine, 

 consisting of Mr. James Glaisher (Secretary), the Rev. Canon Tristram, 

 and the Rev. F. Lawrence, be reappointed. 



Tiiat Mr. James Heywood, Mr. William Shaen, Mr. Stephen Bourue, 

 Mr. Robert Wilkinson, the Rev. W. Delany, Professor N. Story Maske- 

 lyne, Dr. Silvanus P. Thompson, Miss Lydia E. Becker, Sir John 

 Lubbock, Professor A. W. Williamson, Mrs. Augusta Webster, the Rev. 

 H. W. Crosskey, Professor Roscoe, Professor G. Carey Foster, and Dr. J. 

 H. Gladstone (Secretary) be reappointed a Committee for the ])urpose 

 of reporting on^ the workings of the Education Code and of other 

 legislation aifecting the Teaching of Science in Elementary Schools. 



That Mr. F. Galton, Dr. Beddoe, Mr. Brabrook (Secretary and 

 Rsporter), Major-General Pitt-Rivers, Mr. Frank Fellows, Mr. J. P. 

 Harrison, Mr. J. Heywood, Professor Leone Levi, Dr. F. A. Mahomed, 

 Sir Rawson Rawson, Mr. J. E. Price, and Mr. C. Roberts be a Committee 

 for the purpose of carrying out the recommendations of the Anthropo- 

 metric Committee of last year and the more complete discussion of 

 the collected facts. 



That Sir Frederick Bramwell, Dr. A. W. Williamson, Professor 

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

 Mr. C. "W. Merrifield, Dr. Neilson Hancock, Mr. Abel, Captain Douglas 

 Galton, Mr. JSTewmarch, Mr. E. H. Carbutt, Mr. Macrory, Mr. H. 

 Trueman Wood, Mr. W. H. Barlow, and Mr. A. T. Atchison be re- 

 appointed a Committee for the purpose of watching and reporting to 



