COMMITTEES APPOINTED BY THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. Ixxxvii 



2. Not receiving Grants of Money — continued. 



Subject for Investigation or Purpose 



To co-operate with Dr. Kerr in his 

 researches on Electro-optics. 



Tlie Properties of Solutions. 



Eeporting on the Bibliography of Solu- 

 tion. 



The Continuation of the Bibliographj' 

 of Spectroscopy-. 



The Influence of the Silent Discharge 

 of Electricity on Oxygen and other 

 Gases. 



The Action of Light on tl:e Hydracids 

 of the Halogens in presence of 

 Oxygen. 



To inqiiire into the Proximate Chemical 

 Constituents of the various kinds of 

 Coal. 



To report on recent Inquiries into the 

 History of Chemistry. 



The Rate of Erosion of the Sea-coasts of 

 England and Wales, and tlie Influence 

 of the Artificial Abstraction of 

 Shingle or other material in that 

 action , 



Members of the Committee 



Chairman.— Dt. John Kerr. 

 Secretary. — Mr. R. T. Glazebrook. 

 Lord Kelvin and Professor A. W. Rucker. 



Chairman. — Professor W. A. Tilden. 

 Secretary. — Dr. W. W. J. Nicol. 

 Professor W. Ramsay. 



Chairman. — Professor W. A. Tilden. 

 Secretary. — Dr. W. W. J. Nicol. 

 Professors McLeod, Pickering, Ramsay, 

 and Young. 



Chairman. — Professor H. McLeod. 

 Secretary. — Professor Roberts-Austen. 

 Mr. H. G. Madan and Mr. D. H. Nagel. 



Chairman. — Professor H. McLeod. 

 Secretary. — Mr. W. A. Shenstone. 

 Professor W. Ramsay and Mr. J. T. Cun- 

 dall. 



Chairman.— Dx. W. J. Russell. 

 Secretary. — Dr. A. Richardson. 

 Captain Abney and Professors 

 Hartley and W. Ramsay. 



Noel 



The Volcanic Phenomena of Vesuvius 

 and its neighbourhood. 



Chairman. — Sir I. Lowthian Bell. 

 Secretary.— Vvoiessox P. Philhps Bedson. 

 Mr. Ludwig Mond, Professors Vivian B. 



Lewes and E. Hull, and Messrs. J. W. 



Thomas and H. Bauerman. 



Chairman. — Professor H. E. Armstrong. 

 Secretary. — Professor John Ferguson. 



Chairman. — Mr. W. Whitaker. 



Secretarie.<i.— Messrs. C. E. De Ranee and 

 W. Topley. 



Messrs. J. B. Redman and J. W. Woodall, 

 Maj.-Gen. Sir A. Clarke, Admiral Sir E. 

 Ommanney, Capt. Sir G. Nares, Capt. 

 J. Parsons, Capt. W. J. L. Wharton, 

 Professor J. Prestwich, and Messrs. E. 

 Easton and J. S. Valentine, and Pro- 

 fessor L. F. Vernon Harcourt. 



Chairman. — Mr. H. Bauerman. 

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

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



