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Fifth Report of the Committee, consisting of Professors Tilden, 

 McLeod, Pickering, Eamsay, and Young and Drs. A. R. Leeds 

 and NicoL (Secretary), appointed for the purpose of reporting 

 on the Bibliography of Solution. 



During the past year no progress has been made with the work of 

 cataloguing the papers on Solution in the few remaining selected 

 journals. 



The Committee invite the co-operation of members who have access 

 to large scientific libraries and are willing to take an active part in the 

 work. 



Fifth Report of the Committee, consisting of Professors Tilden 

 and Eamsay and Dr. Nicol (Secretary), appointed for the 

 picrpose of investigating the Properties of Solutions. 



The Committee have to report that, owing to the pressure of other work 

 but little progress has been made with experiments on the atomic 

 volumes of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen when substances containing 

 these elements are dissolved in water or other solvents. A preliminary 

 research on the volume of oxygen in the oxy-acids of chlorine, bromine, 

 and iodine has been completed with somewhat startling results, which 

 lead the Committee to hope that valuable data will be obtained when 

 the work is complete. 



Third Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor Egberts- 

 Austen {Chairman), Sir F. Abel, Messrs. E. Eiley and J. 

 Spiller, Professor J. W. Langley, Mr. G. J. Snelus, Professor 

 Tilden, and Mr. Thomas Turner (Secretary), appointed to 

 consider the best method of establishing an International 

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

 the Secretary.) 



In the two previous reports of this Committee the objects of the 

 Committee were defined, and an account was give a of the preparation 

 and distribution by the American Committee of four out of the five 

 international steel standards which Professor Langley had been requested 

 and had kindly undertaken to prepare. A year ago it was hoped that a 

 final report would be presented at the Cardifi' meeting, but, unfortunately, 

 this hope has not been realised, and the completion of the work has been 

 deferred. In the second report mention was made of the fact that the 

 American Committee had entered upon an investigation of the relative 

 accuracy of different methods of analysis, particularly in connection with 

 the estimation of carbon in steel. This work was not considered within 

 the province of the British Association Committee when its obiects were 

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