82 REPORT—1896. 
TABLE OF VALUES OF x,—continued. 
p | log (+x7) X7 Ay As 
| ° | 
by 75 63747265 | + 0000023(70) — (22 | + (06) 
76 63717581 +-0000022(54) | — (16) | + (06) 
77 63696785 + '0000023(42) —- (11) + (05) | 
| | 78 63683035 + 0000023(35) — (07) + (04) 
79 63674469 + °0000023(30) — OS) +) (8) 
80 | 6:3669474 | + 0000023(28) — (03) +) (02 
Sie | 6°3666778 + °0000023(26) —- (1) + (OL) 
82 63665439 + 0000023(26) — (01) +) (OD) 
83 6 3664842 +°00009232(25) — (00) + (00) 
84 6°3664609 + °0000023(25) — (00) + (00) 
85 G°3KG1532 + °0000023(25) = 8(00) + (00) 
86 6 3664512 +°0000923(25) — (00) + (00) 
87 63664508 + *0000023(25) — 1(00) + (00) 
$8 63664508 + °0000023( 25) — (00) a (00) 
80) 6 3664508 + °0000023(25) — (00) + (00) 
6 + + (00) 
90 | 63664508 
“0000028(25) — (00) 
On the Establishment of w National Physical Laboratory.—Report of 
the Committee, consisting of Sir DouGias Gatton (Chairman), 
Lord RayueicH, Lord Ketyin, Sir H. E. Roscor, Professors 
A. W. Ricker, R. B. Ciirron, CarEy Foster, A. SCHUSTER, 
and W. EK. Ayrton, Dr. W. Anperson, Dr. T. E. THorpe, 
Mr. Francis Gatton, Mr. R. T. Guazesroox, and Professor 
O. J. LopGE (Secretary). 
APPENDIX.—On the Physikalisch-technische Reichsanstalt . " e « page 86 
At the Ipswich Meeting of the British Association held in September 
1895 the Committee were reappointed for the purpose of reporting on ‘ the 
establishment of a National Physical Laboratory for the more accurate 
determination of physical constants, and for other quantitative research, 
and to confer with the Council of the Association.’ 
It will be convenient in the first place briefly to enumerate the present 
facilities afforded by the Government, by educational establishments, and 
by private societies for aiding research in Great Britain, independently of 
that direct aid which Government Departments are continually furnishing 
for their own purposes. 
The most direct sources of aid given to research are the 4,000/. a year 
given by the Government for research purposes and administered by the 
Government Grant Committee of the Royal Society ; the Donation Fund 
of the Royal Society derived from its surplus income ; the contributions 
made to research by the British Association ; the investigations carried 
on.at the Royal Institution which afford magnificent examples of private 
munificence in aiding science ; the City and Guilds of London Institute ; 
the Royal Commission of the Exhibition of 1851, which devotes 6,000/. a 
year to research scholarships ; research committees of various scientific 
societies ; the Clarendon Laboratory at the University of Oxford and 
the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge ; the laboratories at Glasgow, 
Edinburgh, and Aberdeen ; the Victoria University ; and the larger 
Colleges not yet incorporated into universities. | 
The facilities which the laboratories of the Universities and of the 
