XXV1 
RESEARCH COMMITTEES, Etc. 
APPOINTED BY THE GENERAL COMMITTEE, MEETING IN 
LIVERPOOL: SEPTEMBER, 1923. 
Grants of money, if any, from the Association for expenses connected 
with researches are indicated in heavy type. 
SECTION A.—MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS. 
Seismological Investigations.—Prof. H. H. Turner (Chairman), Mr. J. J. Shaw 
(Secretary), Mr. C. Vernon Boys, Dr. J. E. Crombie, Dr. ©. Davison, 
Sir F. W. Dyson, Sir R. T. Glazebrook, Prof. H. Lamb, Sir J. Larmor, Prof. 
A. E. H. Love, Prof. H. M. Macdonald, Prof. H. C. Plummer, Mr. W. 8. 
Plummer, Prof. R. A. Sampson, Sir A. Schuster, Sir Napier Shaw, Dr. G. 'T. 
Walker. £100 (Caird Fund grant). 
Tides.—Prof. H. Lamb (Chairman), Dr. A. T. Doodson (Secretary), Dr. G. R. 
Goldsbrough, Dr. H. Jeffreys, Prof. J. Proudman, Major G. I. Taylor, Prof. 
D’Arey W. Thompson, Commander H. D. Warburg. 
Annual Tables of Constants and Numerical Data, chemical, physical, and technological. 
—Sir E. Rutherford (Chairman), Prof. A. W. Porter (Secretary), Mr. Alfred 
Egerton. £15 (Caird Fund grant, to be applied for from Council). 
Calculation of Mathematical Tables.—Prof. J. W. Nicholson (Chairman), Dr. J. R. 
Airey (Secretary), Mr. T. W. Chaundy, Prof. L. N. G. Filon, Prof. E. W. Hobson, 
Mr. G. Kennedy, and Profs. Alfred Lodge, A. E. H. Love. H. M. Macdonald, 
G. B. Mathews, G. N. Watson, and A. G. Webster. £35 (for printing). 
Determination of Gravity at Sea.—Prof. A. E. H. Love (Chairman), Dr. W. G. Duffield 
(Secretary), Mr. T. W. Chaundy, Prof. A. 8. Eddington, Major E. O. Henrici, 
Sir A. Schuster, Prof. H. H. Turner. 
Investigation of the Upper Atmosphere.—Sir Napier Shaw (Chairman), Mr. C. J. P. 
Cave (Secretary), Prof. 8S. Chapman, Mr. J. 8. Dines, Mr. L. H. G. Dines. Mr. 
W. H. Dines, Sir R. T. Glazebrook, Col. E. Gold, Dr. H. Jeffreys, Sir J. Larmor, 
Mr. R. G. K. Lempfert, Prof. F. A. Lindemann, Dr. W. Makower, Sir J. E. Petavel, 
Sir A. Schuster, Dr. G. C. Simpson, Mr. F. J. W. Whipple, Prof. H. H. Turner. 
To aid the work of Establishing a Solar Observatory in Australia.—Prof. H. H. Turner 
(Chairman), Dr. W. G. Duffield (Secretary), Rev. A. L. Cortie, Dr. W. J. S. Lockyer, 
Mr. F. McClean, Sir A. Schuster. 
To investigate local variations of the Earth’s Gravitational Field.—Col. H. G. Lyons 
(Chairman), Capt. H. Shaw (Secretary), Prof. C. Vernon Boys, Dr. C. Chree, Col. 
Sir G. P. Lenox-Conyngham, Dr. J. W. Evans, Mr. E. Lancaster-Jones, the 
Director-General, Ordnance Survey; the Director, Geological Survey of Great 
Britain. £50. 
SECTION B.—CHEMISTRY. 
Colloid Chemistry and its Industrial Applications.—Prof. F. G. Donnan (Chairman), 
Dr. W. Clayton (Secretary), Mr. E. Hatschek, Prof. W. C. McC. Lewis, Prof. J. W. 
McBain. £5. 
Absorption Spectra and Chemical Constitution of Organic Compounds.—Prof. I. M. 
Heilbron (Chairman), Prof. E. C. C. Baly (Secretary), Prof. A. W. Stewart. £10. 
. The Position of the Quantum Theory in its relations to Chemistry.—Prof. W. C. 
McC. Lewis (Chairman), Dr. J. Rice (Secretary), Prof. E. C. C. Baly, Prof. F. A. 
Lindemann, Dr. E. K. Rideal, Dr, N. V, Sidgwick. £10. 
