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REPORT — 1898. 



1. Receiving Grants of Money — continued. 



2. 'Hot receiuing Grants of Mo7iei/. 



To confer with British and Foreign 

 Societies publishing Mathematical 

 and Phj'sical Papers as to the desir- 

 ability of securing Uniformity in the 

 size of the pages of their Transactions 

 and Proceedings. 



Co-operating with the Scottish Meteoro- 

 logical Society in making Meteoro- 

 logical Observations on Ben Nevis. 



To confer with the Astronomer Royal 

 and the Superintendents of other 

 Observatories with reference to the 

 Comparison of Magnetic Standards 

 with a view of carrying out such 

 comparison. 



Comparing and Reducing Magnetic Ob- 

 servations. 



Members of the Committee 



Chairman. — Professor S. P. Thompson. 



Secretary. — Mr. J. Swinburne. 



Prof. G. H. Bryan, Mr. C. V. Burton, Mr. 



R. T. Glazebrook, Professor A. W. 



Riicker, and Dr. 6. Johnstone Stoney. 



Chairman.- — Lord McLaren. 

 Secretary. — Professor Crum Brown. 

 Mr. John Murray, Dr. A. Buchan, and 

 Professor E. Copeland. 



Chairman. — Professor A. W. Riicker. 

 Secretary. — Professor W. Watson. 

 Professor A. Schuster and Professor H. 

 H. Turner. 



Chairman. —Professor W. G. Adams. 



Secretary. — Dr. C. Chree. 



Lord Kelvin, Professor G. H. Darwin, 

 Professor G. Chrystal, Professor A. 

 Schuster, Captain B. W. Creak, the 

 Astronomer Roj'al, Mr. William Ellis, 

 and Professor A. W. Riicker. 



