ixx besbarch committees. 



Eeseaech Committees ' in Suspense.' 



The work of the following Committees is in suspense until further 

 notice. The personnel of these Committees will be found in the Report 

 for 1917. 



SECTION B.— CHEMISTRY. 



To report on the Botanical and Chemical Characters of the Eucalypts and their 

 Correlation. 



Chemical Investigation of Natural Plant Products of Victoria. 



SECTION D. — ZOOLOGY. 



An investigation of the Biology of the Abrolhos Islands and the Noilh-west Coast 

 of Australia (north of Shark's Bay to Broome), with particular reference to the 

 Marine Fauna. 



Nomenclator Animalium Genera et Sub-genera. 



To obtain, as nearly as possible, a Representative Collection of Marsupials for 

 work upon (a) the Reproductive Apparatus and Development, (6) the Brain. 



SECTION E.— GEOGRAPHY. 



To aid in the preparation of a Bathymetrical Chart of the Southern Ocean 

 between Australia and Antarctica. 



SECTION H. — ANTHROPOLOGY. 



To conduct Explorations with the object of ascertaining the Age of Stone Circles. 



To investigate and ascertain the Distribution of Artificial Islands in the Lochs 

 of the Highlands of Scotland. 



To investigate the Physical Characters of the Ancient Egyptians. 



To conduct Archseological and Ethnological Researches in Crete. 



The Teaching of Anthropology. 



To prepare and publish Miss Byrne's Gazetteer and Map of the Native Tribes 

 of Australia. 



To conduct Anthropometric Investigations in the Island of Cyprus. 



To investigate the Lake Villages in the neighbourhood of Glastonbury in connec- 

 tion with a Committee of the Somerset Archseological and Natural History Society. 



To co-operate with Local Committees in Excavations on Roman Sites in Britain. 



SECTION K, — BOTANY. 



To carry out a Research on the influence of varying percentages of Oxygen and 

 of various Atmospheric Pressures upon Geotropic and Heliotropic Irritability and 

 Curvature. 



The Renting of Cinchona Botanic Station in Jamaica. 



