COMMITTEES APPOINTED BT THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. 

 1. jReceiving Grants of Money — continued. 



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Subject for lavestigation or Purpose 



To consider the establishment of 

 a National Physical Laboratory 

 for the more accurate deter- 

 mination of Physical Constants, 

 and for other Quantitative Re- 

 search, and to confer with the 

 Council of the Association. 



Preparing a new Series of Wave- 

 length Tables of the Spectra of 

 the Elements. 



[Last year's grant renewed.] 



To consider the best Method of 

 establishing an International 

 Standard for the Analysis of 

 Iron and Steel. 



[Last year's grant partly renewed.] 



The Action of Light upon Dyed 



Colours. 

 [Last J- ear's grant renewed.] 



Recording the Position, Height 

 above the Sea, Lithological Cha- 

 racters, Size, and Origin of 

 the Erratic Blocks of England, 

 Wales, and Ireland, reporting 

 other matters of interest con- 

 nected with the same, and tak- 

 ing measures for their preserva- 

 tion. 



The Description and Illustration 

 of the Fossil Phyllopoda of the 

 Palaeozoic Eocks. 



The Collection, Preservation, and 

 Systematic Registration , of 

 Photographs of Geological in- 

 terest. 



[Last year's grant renewed.] 



Members of the Committee 



Chairman. — Professor Oliver J. 



Lodge. 

 Secretary. — Mr. E. T. Glazebrook. 

 Lord Kelvin, Lord Rayleigh, Sir 



H. B. Roscoe, Professors J. J. 



Thomson, A. W. Rucker, R. B. 



Clifton, G. F. FitzGerald, Carey 



Foster, J. Viriamu Jones, A. 



Schuster, and W. E. Ayrton. 



Cliairman. — Sir H. E. Roscoe. 

 Secretary. — Dr. Marshall Watts. 

 Mr. J. N. Lockyer, Professors J. 



Dewar, G. D. Liveing, A. 



Schuster, W. N. Hartley, and 



Wolcott Gibbs, and Captain 



Abney. 



Chairman. — Professor Roberts- 

 Austen. 



Secretary. — Mr. Thomas Turner. 



Sir F. Abel, Messrs. E. Riley and 

 J. Spiller, Professor J. W. Lang- 

 ley, Mr. G. J. Snelus, and Pro- 

 fessor W. A. Tilden. 



Chairman. — Professor T. E. Thorpe. 



Secretary .—YiolQssoT J. J. Hum- 

 mel. 



Dr. W. H. Perkin, Prof. W. J. 

 Russell, Captain Abney, Prof. W. 

 Stroud, and Prof. E. Meldola. 



Chairman. — Professor E. Hull. 



Secretary. — Mr. P. F. Kendall. 



Professors W. Boyd Dawkins, T. 

 McK. Hughes, T. G. Bonney, and 

 J. Prestwich, Dr. H. W. Cross- 

 key, Messrs. C. E. De Ranee, 

 E. H. Tiddeman, J. W. Woodall, 

 and Prof. L. C. Miall. 



Chairman.— Raw Prof. T. Wilt- 

 shire. 

 Secretary. — Professor T. E. Jones. 

 Dr. H. Woodward. 



Chairman. — Professor J. Geikie. 



Secretary. — Mr. O. W. Jeffs. 



Prof. T. G. Bonney, Prof. Boyd 

 Dawkins, Dr. V. Ball, Dr. T. 

 Anderson, and Messrs. A. S. 

 Reid, E. J. Garwood, W. Gray, 

 H. B. Woodward, J. E. Bedford, 

 R. Kidston, W. W. Watts, E. H. 

 Tiddeman, and J. J. H. Teall. 



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