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REPORT — 1897. 



Committees appointed by the General Committee at the 

 Toronto Meeting in August 1897. 



1, Receiving Grants of Money. 



Subject for Investigation or Purpose 



Making Experiments for improv- 

 ing the Construction of Practical 

 Standards for use in Electrical 

 Measurements. 



Seismological Observations. 



To assist the Physical Society in 

 bringing out Abstracts of Phy- 

 sical Papers. 



To co-operate with Professor Karl 

 Pearson in the Calculation of 

 certain Integrals. 



Carey 



Cka irma n . — Professor 

 Foster. 



Secretary. — Mr. E. T. Glazebrook. 



Lord Kelvin, Professors W. E. 

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

 and Oliver J. Lodge, Lord Eay- 

 l«igh, Dr. John Hopkinson, Dr. 

 A. Muirhead, Mr. W. H. Preece, 

 Professors J. D. Everett and A. 

 Schuster, Dr. J. A. Fleming, 

 Professors G. F. FitzGerald and 

 J. J. Thomson, Mr. W. N. Shaw, 

 Dr. J. T. Bottomley, Rev. 

 T. C. Fitzpatrick, Professor J. 

 Viriamu Jones, Dr. G. John- 

 stone Stoney, Professor S. P. 

 Thompson, Mr. J. Eennie, Mr. 



E. H. Griffiths, Professor A. W. 

 Eiicker, and Professor A. G. 

 Webster. 



Chairman. — Mr. G. J. S3'mons. 

 Secretaries. — Dr. C. Davison and 



Professor J. Milne. 

 Lord Kelvin, Professor W, G. 



Adams, Dr. J. T. Bottomley, Sir 



F. J. Bramwell, Professor G. H. 

 Darwin, Mr. Horace Darwin, 

 Major L. Darwin, Mr, G. F. 

 Deacon, Professor J. A. Ewing, 

 Professor 0. G. Knott, Professor 



G. A. Lebour, Professor E. Mel- 

 dola. Professor J. Perry, Pro- 

 fessor J. H. Poynting, Dr. Isaac 

 Eoberts, Dr. G. M. Dawson, 

 Professor T. G. Bonney, Mr. 

 C. V. Boys, Professor H. H. 

 Turner, and Mr. M. Walton 

 Brown. 



Cliairman. — Dr. E. Atkinson. 

 Secretary . — Professor A. W. 

 Eiicker. 



Chaii'man. — Rev. Eobert Harley. 



Secretary. — Dr. A. E. Forsyth. 



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

 Lodge, and Professor Karl Pear- 

 son. 







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