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REPORT — 1891. 



Committees appointed by the General Committee at the 

 Cardiff Meeting in August 1891. 



1. Receiving Grants of Money. 



Subject for Investigation or Purpose 



Making Experiments for improv- 

 ing ttie Construction of Practical 

 Standards for use in Electrical 

 Measurements. 



[This grant includes 111. As. 6d., 

 the unexpended balance of last 

 year's grant.] 



Co-operating with the Scottish Me- 

 teorological Society in making 

 Meteorological Observations on 

 Ben Nevis. 



The Ajaplication of Photography 

 to the Elucidation of Meteoro- 

 logical Phenomena. 



For Calculating Tables of certain 

 Mathematical Functions, and, 

 if necessarj% for taking steps to 

 carry out the Calculations, and 

 to publish the results in an 

 accessible form. 



Carrying on the Tables connected 

 wdth the Pellian Equation from 

 the point where the work was 

 left by Degen in 1817. 



[This grant includes 51., the un- 

 expended balance of a previous 

 grant.] 



Members of the Committee 



Chairman. — Professor Carey 

 Foster. 



Secretary. — Mr. R. T. Glazebrook. 



Sir WiUiam Thomson, Professors 

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

 and Lord Eayleigh, Drs. 0. J. 

 Lodge, John Hopkinson, and A. 

 Bluirhead, Messrs. W. H. Preece 

 and Herbert Taylor, Professors 

 Everett and Schuster, Dr. J. A. 

 Fleming, Professors G. F. Fitz- 

 gerald, Chrystal, and J. J. Thom- 

 son, Messrs. W. N. Shaw, J. T. 

 Bottomley.and T. C. Fitzpatrick, 

 Professor J. Viriamu Jones, Dr. 

 G. Johnstone Stoney, and Pro- 

 fessor S. P. Thompson. 



Chairman. — Lord McLaren. 

 Secretary. — Professor Crum Brown. 

 Messrs. John Murray and Buchan, 



Professor R. Copeland, and Hon. 



R. Abercromby. 



Chairman. — Mr. G. J. Symons. 

 Secretary. — Mr. Clayden. 

 Professor Meldola and Mr. John 

 Hopkinson. 



Chair?!ian. — Lord Rayleigh. 



Secretary. — Professor A. Lodge. 



Sir William Thomson, Professor 

 Cayley, Professor B. Price, and 

 Messrs. J. W. L. Glaishei, A. G. 

 Greenhill, and W. M. Hicks. 



Chairman. — Professor Cayley. 

 Secretary. — Professor A. Lodge. 

 Professor Sylvester and Mr. A. R. 

 Forsyth. 



