lixxii KEPOET— 1891. 



2. Not receiving Grants of ^J/ywcy— continued. 



To examine and report how greater 

 uniformity may be introduced into 

 the Kecord of Spectroscopic Work. 



Reporting on the Bibliography of Solu- 

 tion. 



To report on recent Inquiries into the 

 History of Chemistry. 



The Continuation of the Bibliography 

 of Spectroscopy. 



Preparing a new Series of Wave-length 

 Tables of the Spectra of the Elements. 



The Influence of the Silent Discharge 

 of Electricity on Oxygen and other 

 Gases. 



The Action of Light on the Hydracids 

 of the Halogens in presence of 

 Oxygen. 



Isomeric Naphthalene Derivatives 



Absorption Spectra of Pure Compounds. 



To inquire into the Proximate Chemical 

 Constituents of the various kinds of 

 Coai; 



The Rate of Erosion of the Sea-coasts of 

 England and Wales, and the Influence 

 of the Artificial Abstraction of 

 Shingle or other material in that 

 action. 



Members of the Committee 



Chairman.— TtT. Johnstone Stoney. 

 Secretary. — Dr. Johnstone Stoney. 

 Dr. Huggins and Professor Liveing. 



Chairman.— Vmiessor W. A. Tilden. 

 Secretary.— Bi. W. AV. J. Nicol. 

 Professors M'Leod, Pickering, Ramsay, 

 and Young and Dr. A. R. Leeds. 



Chairman. — Professor H. E. Armstrong. 

 Secretary.— FToiessor John Ferguson. 



Chairman. — Professor H. M'Leod. 

 Secretary. — Professor Roberts- Austen. 

 Professor Reinold and Mr. H. G. Madan. 



Chairvia7i. — Sir H. E. Roscoe. 



Secretary. — Dr. Marshall Watts. 



Mr. Lockyer, Professors Dewar, Liveing, 



Schuster, W. N. Hartley, and Wolcott 



Gibbs, and Captain Abney. 



Chairman. — Professor H. M'Leod. 

 Secretary. — Mr. W. A. Shenstone. 

 Professor Ramsay and Mr. J. T. Cundall. 



Chairman. — Dr. Russell. 

 Secretary. — Dr. A. Richardson. 

 Captain Abney and Professors 

 Hartley and W. Ramsay. 



Noel 



Chairman. — Professor W. A. Tilden. 

 Secretary. — Professor H. E. Armstrong. 



Cliairman. — General Festing. 

 Secretary. — Dr. H. E. Armstrong. 

 Captain Abney. 



Chairman. — Sir I. Lowthian Bell. 

 Secretary. — Professor P. Phillips Bedson. 

 Mr. Ludwig Mond, Professors Vivian B. 



Lewes and E. Hull, and Messrs. J. W. 



Thomas and H. Bauerman. 



Chairman. — Mr. R. B. Grantham. 

 Secretaries. — Messrs. C. E. De Ranee and 



W. Topley. 

 Messrs. J. B. Redman, W. Whitaker, and 



J. W.Woodall, Maj.-Gen. Sir A. Clarke, 



Admiral Sir E. Ommanney, Sir J . N. 



Douglass, Capt. Sir G. Nares, Capt. 



J. Parsons, Capt. W. J. L. Wharton, 



Professor J. Prestwich, and Messrs. E. 



Easton, J. S. Valentine, and L. F. 



Vernon Harcourt. 



