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BEPORT — 1893. 

 2. Not rccekivg Grants of Money — continued. 



For taking steps to establish a Botanical 

 Laboratory at Peradeniya, Ceylon. 



To consider proposals for the Legislative 

 Protection of Wild Birds' Eggs. 



The Collection of Facts and Statistics 

 bearing on tlie following Qnostions: — 



1. The inHnence of previoiis ferti- 



lisation of the female on her 

 subsequent ofl'spring. 



2. The effect of material impres- 



sions during pregnancy on the 

 offspring. 

 The Committee are authorised to 

 communicate with the Councils of the 

 British Medical Society, the Koyal 

 Agricultural Society, the Highland 

 Agricultural Society, and the Royal 

 Dublin Society, with the view to joint 

 work. 



Compilation of an Index Generum et 

 Specierum Animalium. 



Scottish Place-names 



The Teaching of Science in Elementary 

 Schools. 



To report on Methods of determining 

 the Drjne: s of Steam in boiler trials. 



Members of the Committee 



Chairman. — Professor M. Foster. 



Secretary. — Professor J. B. Farmer. 



Professor Bayley Balfour, Jlr. Thiselton- 

 Dyer, Dr. H. Trimen, Professor Mar- 

 shall Ward, Mr. W. CaiTuthers, Pro- 

 fessor M. M. Hartog, Professor F. O. 

 Bower, and Mr. W. Gardiner. 



Chairman.— Sir John Lubbock. 



Secretary. — Mr, H. E. Dresser. 



Mr. John Cordeaux, Mr. W. H. Hudson, 

 Professor A. Newton, Mr. Howard 

 Saunders, Mr. Thomas Henry Thomas, 

 Canon Tristram, and Dr. C. T. Vachell. 



Chairman. — Dr. A. Eussel Wallace. 



Secretary. — Dr. James Clark. 



Dr. G. J. Komanes, Dr. S. J. Hickson, 



Professor E. A. Schiifer, and Dr. J. N. 



Langley. 



Chairmaji.—Sir \V. TL Flower. 



iSecretary. — Mr. W. Sclater. 



Dr. P. L. Sclater and Dr. H. Woodward. 



Chairman.— ^\T C. W. Wilson. 

 Secretary. — Dr. J. Burgess. 

 Mr. Coutts Trotter. 



Cliairman. — 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. Roscoc, 

 Sir R. Temple, and Professor Silvanus P, 

 Thompson. 



Cliairman. — Sir F. J. Bramwell. 



Secretary. — Professor W. C. Unwin. 



Professor T. H. Beare, Mr. Jeremiah 

 Head, Professor A. P>. W. Kennedy, 

 Profefsor Osborne Reynolds, and Mr. 

 Mair Rumley. 



