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Committees appointed by the Gtenekal Committee at the 

 Edinburgh Meeting in August 1892. 



1. Receiving Grants of Money. 



Subject for Investigation or Purpose 



Members of tlie Couiinittee 



Grants 



Making Experiments for improv- 

 ing the Construction of Practical 

 Standards for use in Electrical 

 Measurements. 



[Including an unexpended balance 

 of IQl. from last j'ear's grant.] 



Co-operating with the Scottish Me - 

 teorological Society in making 

 Meteorological Observations on 

 Ben Nevis. 



The Application of Pliotography 

 to the Elucidation of Meteoro- 

 logical Phenomena. 



For Calculating Tables of certain 

 Mathematical Functions, and, 

 if necessary, for taking steps to 

 carry out the Calculations, and 

 to publish the results in an 

 accessible form. 



[Last year's grant renewed.] 

 1892. 



Chairman. — Professor G. Carey 

 Foster. 



Secretary. — Mr. R. T. Glazebrook. 



Lord Kelvin, Professors Ayr ton, 

 J. Perry, W. G. Adams, and 

 O. J. Lodge, Lord Eayleigh, Drs. 

 John Hopkinson and A. Muir- 

 head, Messrs. W. H. Preece 

 and Herbert Taylor, Professors 

 Everett and Schuster, Dr. J. A. 

 Fleming, Professors G. F. Fitz- 

 gerald, Chrystal, and J. J. Thom- 

 son, Mr. W. N. Shaw, Mr. J. T. 

 Bottomley, and Rev. T. C. Fitz- 

 patrick. Professor J. Viriamu 

 Jones, Dr. G. Johnstone Stoney, 

 Professor S. P. Thompson, and 

 Professor G. Forbes. 



Chairman. — Lord McLaren. 

 Secretary. — Professor Crum Brown. 

 Mr. John Murray and Dr. A. Buchan, 



Professor R. Copeland, and Hon. 



R. Abercromby. 



Chairman. — Mr. G. J. Symons. 

 Secretary. — Mr. A. W. Clayden. 

 Professor R. Meldola and Mr. John 

 Hopkinson. 



Chairman. — Lord Rayleigh. 

 Secretary. — Professor A. Lodge. 

 Lord Kelvin, Professor Cayley, 



Professor B. Price, Dr. J. W. 



L. Glaisher, Professor A. G. 



Greenhill, and Professor W. M. 



Hicks. ' 



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150 



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