RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. xlix 



Recommendations adopted by the General Committee at the 

 Aberdeen Meeting in September 1859. 



[When Committees are appointed, the Member first named is regarded as the Secretary of 

 the Committee, except there be a specific nomination.] 



Involving Grants of Money. 



That the sum of £500 be placed at the disposal of the Council for main- 

 taining the Establishment at Kew Observatory. 



That Professor Sullivan (of Dublin) be requested to continue his researches 

 on the Solubility of Salts at Temperatures above 100° Cent., and on the 

 mutual Reaction of Salts at such temperatures ; and that the sum of £30, 

 which was voted last year, still remain at his disposal for the purpose. 



That Professor Voelcker be requested to continue his investigation on 

 Field Experiments and Laboratory Researches on the Essential Manuring 

 Constituents of Cultivated Crops; and that the sum of £25 be placed at his 

 disposal for the purpose. 



That Mr. Alphonse Gages be requested to continue his Mechanico-Che- 

 mical Experiments on Rocks ; and that the sum of £25 be placed at his 

 disposal for the purpose. 



That a Committee, consisting of Dr. R. Angus Smith, Dr. Daubeny, Dr. 

 Lyon Playfair, Rev. W. Vernon Harcourt, Professor Williamson, and Mr. 

 Warren De la Rue, be requested to confer with the Parliamentary Committee 

 with reference to the best mode of taking Scientific Evidence in Courts of 

 Law ; and that the sum of £10 be placed at their disposal for the purpose of 

 meeting the expenses incident to the working of the Committee. 



That Mr. Robert Mallet be requested to continue his Experiments on 

 Earthquake Phenomena ; and that the sum of .=€25, unexpended last year, 

 be placed at his disposal for the purpose. 



That a Committee, consisting of the Rev. Dr. Anderson, Professor Ramsay, 

 Professor Nicol, and Mr. Page, be requested to continue the Explorations 

 already begun by Dr. Anderson in the Yellow Sandstones of Dura Den ; 

 and that the sum of .£20 be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 



That a Committee, consisting of Sir Roderick I. Murchison, Mr. Page, 

 and Professor Ramsay, be requested to direct Mr. R. Slimon in his further 

 Exploration of the Upper Silurian Strata of Lesmahagow ; and that the sum 

 of £l5 be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 



That a Committee, consisting of Mr. Mac Andrew (London), Mr. G. C. 

 Hyndman (Belfast), Dr. Dickie (Belfast), Mr. C. L. Stewart (London), Dr. 

 Collingwood (Liverpool), Dr. Kinahan (Dublin), Mr. J. G. Jeffreys (London), 

 Dr. E. P. Wright (Dublin), Mr. L. Worthey (Bristol), Mr. S. P. Woodward 

 (London), Professor Allman (London), and Professor Huxley (London), be 

 requested to conduct general Dredging Investigations, and printing of 

 Dredging Papers ; and that the sum of ^650 be placed at their disposal for 

 the purpose. 



That a Committee, consisting of Dr. Ogilvie, Dr. Dickie, Dr. Dyce, Pro- 

 fessor Nicol, and Mr. C. W. Peach, be requested to conduct Dredging In- 

 vestigations on the North and East Coasts of Scotland ; and that the sum of 

 £25 be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 



That a Committee, consisting of Professor Kinahan, Dr. Carte, Dr. E. Per- 

 cival Wright, and Professor J. Reay Greene, be requested to conduct Inves- 

 tigations in Dredging Dublin Bay, and to report to the next Meeting of 

 1859. d 



