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REPORT — 1898. 



Committp:es appointed by the General Committee at the 

 Bristol Meeting in September 1898. 



1. Receiving Grants of Money. 



Subject for Investigation or Purpose 



Making Experiments for improv- 

 ing the Construction of Practical 

 Standards for use in Electrical 

 Measurements. 



[And 75Z., last year's grant not 

 expended.] 



Seismological Observations. 



Members of the Committee 



To assist the publication 

 ' Science Abstracts.' 



of 



Experiments on the Heat of com- 

 bination of Metals in the forma- 

 tion of .Allovs. 



Chairman. — Lord Eayleigh. 



Secretary. — Mr. R. T. Glazebrook. 



Lord Kelvin, Professors W. E. 

 Ayrton, J. Perry, \V. G. Adams, 

 Oliver J. Lodge, and G. 

 Carey Foster, Dr. A. Jluirhead, 

 Mr. W. H. Preece, Profes- 

 sors J. D. Everett and A. 

 Schuster, Dr. J. A. li'leming. 

 Professors G. F. FitzGeiald and 

 J. J. Thomson, Mr. W. N. Shaw, 

 Dr. J. T. Bottomley, Rev. 

 T. C. Fitzpatrick, Professor J. 

 Viriamu Joues, Dr. G. John- 

 stone iStoney, Professor S. P. 

 Thompson, Mr. J. Rennie, Mr. 

 E. H. Griffiths, Professor A. W. 

 Riicker, and Professor H. L. 

 Callendar. 



CJiairnian. — Prof. J. W. Judd. 



Secretary. — Professor J. Milne. 



Lord Kelvin, Sir F. J. Bramwell, 

 Professor G. H. Darwin, Mr. 

 Horace Darwin, Major L. Dar- 

 win, Professor J. A. Ewing, 

 Professor C. G. Knott, Professor 

 R. Meldola, Professor J. Perry, 

 Professor J. H. Poynting, Pro- 

 fessor T. G. Bonney, Mr. C. V. 

 Boys, Professor H. H. Turner, 

 5Ir. G. J. Symons, and Dr. C. 

 Davison. 



Cliairman. — Professor A. ">V. 

 Riicker. 



Secretary. — Professor W. E. Ayr- 

 ton. 



Captain Abney and Professor S. P. 

 Thompson. 



Cliairman. — Lord Kelvin. 

 Secretary.^Di. A. Gait. 

 Professor F, G. FitzGerald, Dr. 



J. H. Gladstone, and Professor 



O. J. Lodire. 



Grants 



£ s. d. 

 225 



rs 



100 



20 



