COMMITTEES AITOINTED BY THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. IxXXl 



Committees ArroiNTED by the General Committee at the 

 Oxford Meeting in August 1891-. 



1. Beceiving Grants of Money. 



Subject for Investigation or Purpose 



Making Experiments for improv- 

 ing the Construction of Practical 

 Standards for use in Electrical 

 Measurements. 



The Application of Photography 

 to the Elucidation of Meteoro- 

 logical Phenomena. 



For Calculating Tables of certain 

 Mathematical Functions, and, 

 if necessary, for taking steps to 

 carry out the Calculations, and 

 to publish the results in an 

 accessible form. 



[Unexpended balance in hands of 

 Committee.] 



Considering the advisability and 

 possibility of establishing in 

 other parts of the country Ob- 

 servations upon the Prevalence 

 of Earth Tremors similar to 

 those now being made in Dur- 

 ham in connection with coal- 

 mine explosions. 



Members of the Committee 



1894. 



Chairman. — Professor G. Carey 

 Foster. 



Secretary. — JMr. E. T. Glazebrook. 



Lord Kelvin, Professors W. E. 

 Ayrton, J. Perry, W. G. Adams, 

 and Oliver J. Lodge, Lord Kay- 

 leigh, Dr. John Hopkinson, Dr. 

 A. Muiihead, Messrs. W. H. 

 Preece and Herbert Taylor, 

 Professors J. D. Everett and A. 

 Schuster, Dr. J. A. Fleming, 

 Professors G. F. FitzGerald, 

 G. Chrystal, and J. J. Thomson, 

 Mr. W. N. Shaw, Dr. J. T. 

 Bottomley, Kev. T. C. Fitz- 

 patrick, Professor J. Viriamu 

 Jones, Dr. G. Johnstone Stoney, 

 Professor S. P. Thompson, Mr. 

 G. Forbes, and Mr. J. Kennie. 



Chairman. — Mr. G. J. Symons. 

 Secretary. — Mr. A. W. Clayden. 

 Professor K. Meldola and Mr. John 

 Hopkinson. 



Chairmaii. — Lord Rayleigh. 

 Secretary. — Professor A. Lodge. 

 Lord Kelvin, Professor A. Cayley, 



Professor B. Price, Dr. J. W. 



L. Glaisher, Professor A. G. 



Greenhill, and Professor W. M. 



Hicks. 



Chairman. — Sir. G. J. Symons. 



Secretary. — Mr. C. Davison. 



Sir F. J. Bramwell, Professor G. H 

 Darwin, Professor J. A. Ewing, 

 Mr. Isaac Roberts, Mr. T. Gray, 

 Sir J. Evans, Professor J. Prest- 

 wich. Professor E. Hull, Pro- 

 fessor G. A. Lebour, Professor 

 R. Meldola, Professor J. W. 

 Judd, Mr. M. Walton Brown, 

 Mr. J. Glaisher, Professor C. 

 G. Knott, Professor J. H. 

 Poynting, and Mr. Horace 

 Darwin, 



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