264 RKPORT— 1892. 



The Committee desire to be reappointed, with the addition of 

 Professor Meldola as a member, and request that a further sum of 51. 

 be granted to cover a small sum still due to the Secretary. 



.Report of the Committee, consisting of Sir J. Lowthian Bell, Pro- 

 fessor P. Phillips Bedson (Secretary), Mr. Ludwig Mono, Pro- 

 fessor Vivian B. Lewes, Professor E. Hull, Mr. J. W. Thomas, 

 and Mr. H. Bauerman, for inquiring into the Proximate Con- 

 stituents of the various kinds of Coal. 



The bibliography of the subject which is in course of preparation is not 

 yet completed. Experimental work is still in progress. The Committee 

 ask to be reajDpointed, and hope to present a report next year. 



Eighteenth Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor Hull 

 (Chairman), Eev. Dr. H. W. Crosskey, Sir D. Galton, Messrs. 

 J. GtLAISHEr, Percy Kexdall, Professor G. A. Lebour, E. B. 

 Marten, G. H. Morton, W. Pengelly, J. Plant, Professor J. 

 Prestwich, Messrs. I. Roberts, Thos. S. Stooke, G. J. Symons, 

 W. ToPLEY, Tylden-Wright, E. Wethered, W. Whitaker, and 

 De Range {Secretary), appointed for the purpose of investi- 

 gating the Circulation of Underground Waters in the Permeable 

 Formations of England and Wales, and the Quantity andy Cha- 

 racter of the Waters supplied to various Toivns and Districts 

 from these Formations. {Drawn up by C. E. De Range, Reporter.) 



Since your reporter was appointed at the initiation of your Committee in 

 1872 he has received most valuable assistance from past and present 

 members of the Committee in preparing the annual report, both as 

 regards original observations made by them, original data collected from 

 others by them, and by general hints and suggestions received from 

 them. As regards the first two heads, many valuable communications 

 have beeia too important to absoib into the general report, and have been 

 given in separate appendices under the individual member's name. But 

 your reporter is compelled to point out that the arrangement by which a 

 member of the Committee took personal charge of a portion of England 

 and Wales, which he instituted with a considerable measure of success in 

 1873, has year by year become less operative, and each succeeding annual 

 report has contained less and less matter contributed by the Committee. 

 The last communication received was in 1889, and is embodied in the 

 fifteenth report. Since then your reporter has had no assistance from, 

 your Committee, and the sixteenth, seventeenth, and the present 

 eighteenth reports have been wholly compiled from information col- 

 lected by him and subsequently approved by the Committee at their 

 annual meeting without alteration. 



