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REPORT — 1894. 

 1. Receiving Grants of Money — continued. 



Subject for Investigation or Purpose 



Co-operating with the Scottish 

 Meteorological Society in making 

 Meteorological Observations on 

 Ben Nevis. 



To assist the Phj'sical Society in 

 bringing out Abstracts of Phy- 

 sical Papers. 



To co-operate with the Pioyal Corn- 

 wall Polytechnic Society for the 

 purpose of comparing and re- 

 ducing the Magnetic Observa- 

 tions of Falmouth Observatory. 



To confer with the Astronomer 

 Royal and the Superintendents 

 of other Observatories with refer- 

 ence to the Comparison of Mag- 

 netic Standards with a view of 

 carrying out such comparison. 



To co-operate with Professor Karl 

 Pearson in the Calculation of 

 certain Integrals. 



To confer with British and Foreign 

 Societies publishing Mathema- 

 tical and Physical Papers as to 

 the desirability of securing uni- 

 formity in the size of the pages 

 of their Transactions and Pro- 

 ceedings. 



Preparing a new Series of AVave- 

 length Tables of the Spectra of 

 the Elements. 



The Action of Light upon Dyed 

 Colours. 



The Investigation of the direct 

 Formation of Haloids from pure 

 Materials. 



Members of the Committee 



Ckairmati.—'Lord ]\IcLaren. 

 Secretary. — Professor Crum Brown. 

 Mr. John Murray, Dr. A. Buchan, 



Professor Pi. Copeland, and Hon. 



R. Abercromby. 



Cliairman.- 

 Secretary. 

 Riicker. 



-Dr. E. Atkinson. 



- Professor A. "vV. 



Chairman. — Mr. Howard Fox. 

 Secretary. — Professor W. G. Adams. 

 Professor A. W. Riicker. 



Chairman. — Professor A. W. 

 Riicker. 



Secretary. — Mr. W. Watson. 



Professor A. Schuster and Pro- 

 fessor H. H. Turner. 



Chairman.— "Rev. Robert Harley. 



Secretary. — Dr. A. R. Forsyth. 



Dr. J. W. L. Glaisher, Professor A. 

 Lodge, and Professor Karl Pear- 

 son. 



Chairman. — Professor S. P. Thomp- 

 son. 



Secretary. — Mr. J. Swinburne. 



Mr. G. H. Bryan, Mr. C. V. Burton, 

 Mr. R. T. Glazebrook, Professor 

 A. W. Riicker, and Dr. G. John- 

 stone Stoney. 



Chairman. — Sir H. E. Roscoe. 

 Secretary/. — Dr. Marshall Watts. 

 Mr. J. N. Lockyer, Professors J. 



Dewar, G. D. Liveing, A. 



Schuster, W. N. Hartley, and 



Wolcott Gibbs, and Captain 



Abney. 



Chairman. — Dr. T. E. Thorpe. 



Secretary. — Professor J. J. Hum- 

 mel. 



Dr. W. H. Perkin, Prof. W. J. 

 Russell, Captain Abney, Prof. W. 

 Stroud, and Prof. R. Meldola. 



Chairman. — Professor H. E. Arm- 

 strong. 



Secretary.— Islr. W. A. Shenstone. 



Professor W. R. Dunstan and Mr. 

 C. H. Bothamley. 



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