COMMITTEES APPOINTED BY THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. Ixxxix 

 2. Not receiving Grants of Money — continued. 



Subject for Investigation or Purpose 



The Collection of Facts and Statistics 

 bearing on the following Questions : — 



1. The influence of previous ferti- 



lisation of the female on her 

 subsequent offspring. 



2. Tlie effect of maternal impres- 



sions during pregnancy on the 



offspring. 

 The Committee are authorised to 

 communicate with the Covmcils of the 

 British Medical Societ\-, the Eoyal 

 Agricultural Society, the Highland 

 Agricultural Society, and the Koyal 

 Dublin Society, with the view to joint 

 work. 



For carrying on the Work of the An- 

 thropometric Laboratory. 



The Prehistoric and Ancient Kemains 

 of Glamorganshire. 



The Physical Characters, Languages, 

 and Industrial and Social Condition 

 of the North-Western Tribes of the 

 Dominion of Canada. 



To co-operate witli the Committee ap- 

 pointed by the International Congress 

 of Hygiene and Demography in the 

 investigation of the Mental and Phy- 

 sical Condition of Children. 



Members of the Committee 



CJiairman. — Dr. A. Kussel Wallace. 

 Secretary. — Dr. James Clark. 

 Professor S. J. Hickson, Professor F. 

 Jeffrey Bell, and Dr. J. N. Langley. 



Chairman.— ^ix W. H. Flower. 

 Secretary. — Dr. J. G. Garson. 

 Dr. Wilberforce Smith, Professor A. C. 

 Haddon, and Professor B. C. A. Windle. 



CJiairman.~V>r. C. T. Vachell. 



Secretary. — IMr. E. Seward. 



Lord Bute, Messrs. G. T. Clark, E. W. 

 Atkinson, Franklen G. Evans, James 

 Bell, and T. H. Thomas, and Dr. J. 

 G. Garson. 



Chairman.— Dr. E. B. Tylor. 

 Secretary.— Kv. Cuthbert E. Peek. 

 Dr. G. M. Dawson, Mr. E. G. Haliburton, 

 and Mr. H. Hale. 



Chairman. — Sir Douglas Galton. 

 Secretary. — Dr. Francis Warner. 

 Mr. E. VV. Brabrook, Dr. J. G. Garson, 

 and Dr. W. Wilberforce Smith. 



Communications ordered to be printed in extenso. 



Dr. S. P. Langlej^'s paper on ' Eecent Eesearches in the Infra-red Spectrum.' 



Professor G. Quincke's paper on the ' Formation of Soap-bubbles by the Contact 

 of Alkaline Oleates with Water.' 



Professor W. Forster's paper on the ' Displacements of the Eotational Axis of the 

 Earth.' 



Professor A. Cornu's paper on a ' Lecture-room Experiment to illustrate Fresnel's 

 Diffraction Theory, Babinet's Principle.' 



Professor J. J. Thomson's paper on the * Connection between Chemical Combi- 

 nation and the Discharge of Electricity through Gases.' 



