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RESEARCH COMMITTEES. 
2. Not receiving Grants of Money—continued. 
Subject for Investigation, or Purpose 
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Members of Committee 
Section D.—ZOOLOGY. 
*To aid competent Investigators se- 
lected by the Committee to carry on 
definite pieces of work at the Zoolo- 
gical Station at Naples. 
To investigate the Feeding Habits of 
British Birds by a study of the 
contents of the crops and gizzards 
of both adults and nestlings, and by 
collation of observational evidence, 
with the object of obtaining precise 
knowledge as to the economic status 
of many of our commorer birds 
affecting rural science. 
Todefray expenses connected with work 
on the Inheritance and Development 
of Secondary Sexual Characters in 
Birds. 
To summon meetings in London or else- 
where for the consideration of mat- 
ters affecting the interests of Zoology 
or Zoologists, and to obtain by corre- 
spondence the opinion of Zoologists 
on matters of a similar kind, with 
power to raise by subscription from 
each Zoologist a sum of money for 
defraying current expenses of the 
Organisation. 
To nominate competent Naturalists to 
perform definite pieces of work at 
the Marine Laboratory, Plymouth. 
To enable Mr. Laurie to conduct Ex- 
periments in Inheritance. 
To formulate a Definite System on 
which Collectors should record their 
captures. 
A Natural History Survey of the Isle 
of Man. 
Chairman.—Mr. E. §. Goodrich. 
Secretary.— Dr. J. H. Ashworth. 
Mr. G. P. Bidder, Drs. W. B. Hardy and 
S. F. Harmer, Professor 8. J. Hickson, 
Sir E. Ray Lankester, Professor W. C. 
McIntosh, and Dr. A. D. Waller. 
Chairman.—Dr. A. B. Shipley. 
Secretary.—Mr. H. S. Leigh. 
Messrs. J. N. Halbert, Robert New- 
stead, Clement Reid, A. G. L. Rogers, 
and F. V. Theobald, Professor F. E. 
Weiss, Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, and 
Professors 8. J. Hickson, F. W. Gam- 
ble, G. H. Carpenter, and J. Arthur 
Thomson. 
Chairman.—Professor G. C. Bourne. 
Secretary.—Mr. Geoffrey Smith. 
Mr. E. S. Goodrich, Dr. W. T. Calman, 
and Dr. Marett Tims. 
Chairman.—Sir E. Ray Lankester. 
Secretary.—Professor 8. J. Hickson. 
Professors G. C. Bourne, J. Cossar Ewart, 
M. Hartog, and W. A, Herdman, Mr. 
M. D. Hill, Professors J.Graham Kerr 
and Minchin, Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell, 
Professors E. B. Poalton and Stanley 
Gardiner, and Dr. A. E. Shipley. 
Chairman and Secretary.—Professor A. 
Dendy. 
Sir E. Ray Lankester, Professor J. P. 
Hill, Professor Sydney H. Vives, and 
Mr. E. 8. Goodrich. 
Chairman.—Professor W. A. Herdman. 
Secretary.—Mr. Douglas Laurie. 
Professor R. C. Punnett and Dr. H.W. | 
Marett Tims. 
Chairman.— Professor J. W. H. Trail. 
Secretary.—Mr. F. Balfour Browne. 
Drs. Scharff and E. J. Bles, Professors 
G. H. Carpenter and E. B. Poulton, 
and Messrs. A. G, Tansley and R. Lloyd 
Praeger. 
Chairman.—Professor W. A. Herdman, 
Secretary.—Mr. P. M. C. Kermode, 
Dr. W. T. Calman, Rev. J. Davidson, 
Mr. G. W. Lamplugh, Professor E. W. 
MacBride, and Lord Raglan. - 
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