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 ("Secretary), appointed for the purpose of reporting' on tlie Bibliography of ^ 

 Solution 273 



Fifth Report of the Committee, consisting of Professors Tjlden and Ramsat 

 and Dr. NicOL (Secretary), appointed for the purpose of investigating the 

 Properties of Solutions 273 



Tliird Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor Roberts- A ustex 

 (Chairman), Sir F. Abel, Messrs. E. Riley and J. Spiller, Professor J. W. 

 Langley, Mr. G. J. Snelus, Professor Tilden, and Mr. TnosfAS Turner 

 (Secretary), appointed to consider the best method of establishing an Inter- 

 national Standard for the Analysis of Iron and Steel. (Drawn up by the 

 Secretary) 2/3 



Report (provisional) of a Committee, consisting of Professors H. E. Arm- 

 strong and W. R. Dunstan and Messrs. C. H. Bothamley and W. A. 

 Shenstone (Secretary), appointed to investigate the direct formation of 

 Haloid Compounds from pure materials 274 



Provisional Report of the Committee, consisting of General Festing, Captain 

 Abney, and Professor H. E. Armstrong (Secretary), on the Absorption 

 Spectra of Pure Compounds 275 



Kineteenth Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor Prestwioh, Dr. 

 H. W. Crosskey, Professors W. Boyd Dawkins, T. McKenny Hughes, 

 and T. G. Bonney, and Messrs. C. E. De Rance, \Y. Pengelly, J. Plant, 

 and R. H. Tiddejiax, appointed for the purpose of recording the Position, 

 Height above the Sea, Lithological Characters, Size, and Origin of the Erratic 

 Blocks of England, Wales, and Ireland, reporting other matters of interest 

 connected with the same, and taking measures for their preservation. 

 (Drawn up by Dr. Crosskey, Secretary) 276 



Second Report of the Committee, consisting of Dr. H. Woodwaed (Chair- 

 man), Rev. G. F. Whidboene, Messrs. R. Etheeidge, R. Kibston. J. E. 

 Mare, C. D. Sheeboen, and A. S. Woodward (Secretary), for the Regis- 

 tration of all the Type Specimens of British Fossils .°... 209 



Seventeenth Report of the Committee, consisting of Drs. E. Hull and 

 H. W. Crosskey, Sir Douglas Galton, Professor G. A. Lebour, and 

 Messrs. James GLAiSBtER, E. B. Marten, G. H. Morton, J. Pakkek, ^V. 

 Pengelly, James Plant, J. Prestwich, I. Roberts, C. Fox-Strangeways 

 T. S. Stooke, G. J. Symons, W. Topley, Tylden-Wright, E. Wethe- 

 eed, W. Whitaker, and C. E. De Range (Secretary), appointed for tho 

 purpose of mvestigatmg the Circulation of Underground Waters in the 

 Permeable Formations of England and Wales, and the Quantity and Character 

 of the Water supplied to various Towns and Districts from these Forma- 

 tions. (Drawn up by C. E. De Range, Reporter) ... 300 



Second Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor James Geikie (Chair- 

 Z^J^'^'-^^^'^^^^^l^^^^^^'J^^'-'VALi.wrm^ Ball, Mr. James E. Bed- 

 ford, Pi;ofessor T. G. Bonney Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, Mr. James W 

 DAvn. Mr. William Gray, Mr. Robert Kidston Mr Arthur SPrin 

 Mr. R. H. TiDDEMAN, Mr^W. W. Watxs, Mr. Horace BWoodw.rd and 

 Mr. Osmund W. Jeeps Secretary), to arrange for the collectionrpreser'-a- 

 tion and systematic registration of Photogi^aphs of Geological interest in 

 the United Kingdom. (Drawn up by the Secretary) '^'°'°°''''' ^^*'^^'* '° 3^^ 



