RESEARCH COMMITTEES. XXxi 



To assemble information regarding the Distribution of Cleavage in North and Central 

 )^*l^/-T,^''°^- '^^^ ^- ^'earnsides {Chairman), Prof. P. G. H. Boswell and Mr. 

 W. H. Wjlcockson (Secretaries), Prof. A. H. Cox, Mr. I. S. Double, Dr. Gertrude 

 EUes, Prof. 0. T. Jones, Dr. E. Greenly, Mr. W. B. R. King, Prof. W. J. Pueh 

 Dr. Bernard Smith, Dr. A. K. Wells, Dr. L. J. Wills. ' 



SECTIONS C, D, E, K.— GEOLOGY, ZOOLOGY, GEOGRAPHY, BOTANY. 

 To organise an expedition to investigate the Biology, Geology, and Geography of the 

 Australian Great Barrier Reef.— Rt. Hon. Sir M. Nathan (Chairman), Prof J 

 Stanley Gardiner and Mr. F. A. Potts (Secretaries), Sir Edgeworth David Prof 

 W. T. Gordon, Prof. A. C. Seward, and Dr. Herbert H. Thomas (from Section C) '■ 

 Mr. E. Heron-Allen, Dr. E. J. Allen, Prof. J. H. Ashworth, Dr. G. P. Bidder' 

 Dr. W. T. Caiman, Sir Sidney Harmer, Dr. C. M. Yonge (from Section D) ; Dr! 

 R. N. Rudmose Brown, Sir G. Lenox Conyngham, Mr. F. Debenham, Admiral 

 Douglas, Mr. A. R. Hinks (from Section E) ; Prof. F. E. Fritsch, Dr Margery 

 Knight, Prof. A. C. Seward (from Section K). 



SECTION D.— ZOOLOGY. 

 To aid competent Investigators selected by the Committee to carry on definite pieces 

 of work at the Zoological Station at Naples.— Prof. E. S. Goodrich (Chairman) 

 Prof. J. H. Ashworth (Secretary), Dr. G. P. Bidder, Prof. F. 0. Bower, Prof' 

 Munro Fox, Sir W. B. Hardy, Sir Sidney Harmer, Prof. E. W. MacBride. £100 

 (Caird Fund grant). 



Zoological Bibliography and Publication.— Prof. E. B. Poulton (Chairman), Dr F A- 

 Bather (Secretary), Mr. E. Heron-Allen, Dr. W. T. Caiman, Sir P. Chalmers 

 Mitchell, Mr. W. L. Sclater. 



To nominate competent Naturalists to perform definite pieces of work at the Marine 

 Laboratory, Plymouth.— Prof. J. H. Ashworth (Chairman and Secretary), Prof. 

 H. Graham Cannon, Prof. J. Stanley Gardiner, Prof. S. J. Hickson. £50. 



To co-operate with other Sections interested, and with the Zoological Society, for 

 the purpose of obtaining support for the Zoological Record.— Sir Sidney Harmer 

 (Chairman), Dr. W. T. Caiman (Secretary), Prof. E. S. Goodrich, Prof D M S 

 Watson. £50. 



On the Influence of the Sex Physiology of the Parents on the Sex-Ratio of the Ofispring. 

 —Prof. J. H. Orton (Chairman), Mrs. Bisbee (Secretary), Prof. Carr-Saunders 

 Miss E. C. Herdman. £10. 



Investigations on Pigment in the Insecta.— Prof. W. Garstang (Chairman), Prof. 



J. W. Heslop Harrison (Secretary), Prof. A. D. Peacock, Prof. E. B. Poulton. 

 To consider the position of Animal Biology in the School Curriculum and matters 



relating thereto.— Prof. R. D. Laurie (Chairman and Secretary), Mr. H. W. 



Ballance, Dr. Kathleen E. Carpenter, Mr. O. H. Latter, Prof. E. W. MacBride 



Miss M. McNicol, Miss A. J. Prothero, Prof. W. M. Tattersall. 



A Preliminary Survey of Certain Tropical Lakes in Kenya in 1929.— Prof. J. Stanley 

 Gardiner (Chairman), Miss P. M. Jenkin (Secretary), Dr. W. T. Caiman, Prof. J. 

 Graham Kerr, Mr. J. T. Saunders. 



SECTIONS D, I, K.— ZOOLOGY, PHYSIOLOGY, BOTANY. 

 Nomenclature of Cell Structures. — Prof. C. Lovatt Evans (Chairman), Prof. H. E. 

 Roaf (Secretary) (for Section I), Dr. J. B. Gatenby, Mr. L. A. Harvey (for 

 Section D), Dr. K. B. Blackburn, Dr. Margery Knight (for Section K). 



SECTION E.— GEOGRAPHY. 

 To report further as to the method of construction and reproduction of a Population 

 Map of the British Isles with a view to the census of 1931. — Mr. H. 0. Beckit 

 (Chairman), Mr. A. G. Ogilvie (Vice-Chairman), Mr. J. Cossar (Secretary), Mr. J. 

 Bartholomew, Mr. F. Debenham, Prof. C. B. Fawcett, Prof. H. J. Fleure, Mr. 

 R. H. Kinvig, Prof. 0. H. T. Rishbeth, Prof. P. M. Roxby, Mr. A. Stevens, Col. 

 H. S. L. Winterbotham. £75. 



