COMMITTEES APPOINTED BY THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. 

 2. Not receiving Granti of Money — continued. 



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Subject for Investigation or Purpose 



Members of the Committee 



To undertake the Investigation of the 

 Sources of the River Aire, and also to 

 test the value of Uranin and other 

 Dyes in investigating the Courses of 

 Underground Streams. 



The Volcanic Phenomena of Vesuvius 

 and its neighbourhood. 



Considering the advisability and possi- 

 bility of establishing in other parts 

 of the country Observations upon the 

 Prevalence of Earth Tremors similar 

 to those now being made in Durham 

 in connection with coal-mine explo- 

 sions. 



To consider a project for investigating 

 the Structure of a Coral Keef by 

 Boring and Sounding. 



Disappearance of Native Plants from 

 their Local Habitats. 



To make a Digest of the Observations on 

 the Migration of Birds at Lighthouses 

 and Light-vessels. 



For taking steps to establish a Botanical 

 Laboratory at Peradeniya, Ceylon. 



To consider proposals for the Legislative 

 Protection of Wild Birds' Eggs. 



The Teaching of Science in Elementary 

 Schools. 



Chairman. — Professor R. Meldola. 



Secretary. — Professor Silvanus P. Thomp- 

 son. 



Mr. J. Birbeck, Mr. Walter Morrison, 

 M.P., Rev. G. Style, and Mr. Thomas 

 Tate. 



Chairman. — Mr. H. Bauerman. 

 Secretary. — Dr. H. J. Johnston-Lavis. 

 Messrs. F. W. Rudler and J. J. H. Teall. 



ChairnMn. — Mr. G. J. S3'mons. 



Sec7rtary.^M.T. C. Davison. 



Sir F. J. Bramwell, Mr. E. A. Cowper, 

 Professor G. H. Darwin, Professor 

 Ewing, Mr. Isaac Roberts, Mr. Thomas 

 Gray, Dr. John Evans, Professors Prest- 

 wich, Hull, Lebour, Meldola, and Judd, 

 Mr. M. Walton Brown, and Mr. J. 

 Glaisher. 



Chairman. — Professor T. G. Bonney. 



Secretary. — Professor W. J. SoUas. 



Sir Archibald Geikie, Professors A. H. 

 Green, J. W. Judd, and C. Lapworth, 

 Captain Wharton, Drs. H. Hicks and J. 

 Murray, and Mr. F. Darwin. 



Chairman. — Mr. A. W. Wills. 

 Secretary. — Professor W. Hillhouse. 

 Messrs. E. W. Badger and George Cla- 

 ridge Druce. 



Chairman. — Professor Newton. 

 Secretary. — Mr. John Cordeaux. 

 Messrs. John A. Harvie-Brown, R. M. 



Barrington, and W. E. Clarke and the 



Rev. E. P. Knubley. 



Chairman. — Professor M. Foster. 



Secretary. — Professor F. 0. Bower. 



Professor Bayley Balfour, Mr. Thiselton- 

 Dyer, Dr. Trimen, Professor Marshall 

 Ward, Mr. Carruthers, Professor Har- 

 tog, and Mr. W. Gardiner. 



Chairman. — Mr. Thomas Henry Thomas. 

 Secretary.— T)T. C. T. Vachell. 

 Professors W. N. Parker, Newton, and 



Leipner, Mr. Poulton, and Canon 



Tristram. 



Chairman. — Dr. J. H. Gladstone. 



Secretary. — Professor H. E. Armstrong. 



Mr. S. Bourne, Dr. Crosskey, Mr. George 

 Gladstone, Mr. J. Heywood, Sir J. 

 Lubbock, Sir Philip Magnus, Professor 

 N. Story Maskelyne, Sir H. E. Roscoe, 

 Sir R. Temple, and Professor Silvanus P. 

 Thompson. 



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