RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. XXXiX 
RECOMMENDATIONS ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL COMMITTEE AT THE 
Leeps MEETING in SEPTEMBER 1858. 
{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 Parliamentary Committee, now consisting of 
The Lord Wrottesley Sir Philip Egerton, Bart. 
The Earl of Rosse Right Hon. J, Napier 
The Duke of Argyll Lord Stanley 
The Duke of Devonshire E. J. Cooper, Esq. 
The Earl of Enniskillen Viscount Goderich 
The Earl of Harrowby Sir John Pakington, Bart., 
have authority to expend a sum not exceeding £50 in promoting an Act of 
Parliament to facilitate the appointment of New Trustees of the Property 
of Scientific Institutions. 
That the sum of £500 be placed at the disposal of the Council for main- 
taining the Establishment at Kew Observatory. 
That a sum of £200 be placed at the disposal of Professor Wilson of the 
Melbourne University, in aid of his proposed scheme for establishing a Re- 
flecting Telescope, with a speculum of 4 feet diameter, for the Observation 
of the Southern Nebule; on the understanding that the Local Government 
of Melbourne, Victoria, and other sources, will defray all the remaining cost 
of carrying the proposal into effect. 
That Colonel Sykes, Lord Wrottesley, Professor Faraday, Professor Wheat- 
stone, Dr. Lee, and Professor Tyndall, be appointed a Committee to confer 
with the Kew Committee as to the expediency of arranging further Balloon 
Ascents, and (if it should be judged expedient) to carry them into effect ; 
and that a sum of £200 be placed at their disposal, if it should be required 
for this purpose. 
That a Committee, consisting of Professor Maskelyne, Mr. Hardwich, 
Mr. Llewellyn, and Mr. Hadow, be requested to continue their Researches 
on the Chemical Nature of the Image formed in Photographic Processes ; 
and that the sum of £10 be placed at their disposal for the purpose. 
That Professor Voeleker be requested to continue his Field Experiments 
and Laboratory Researches on the Constituents of Manures essential to 
Cultivated Crops; and that the sum of £25 be placed at his disposal for the 
urpose. 
j That Professor Sullivan be requested to furnish a Report on the Solubi- 
lity of Salts at Temperatures above that of Boiling Water, and on the mutual 
Action of Salts in Solution; and that the sum of £30 be placed at his dis- 
posal for the purpose. 
That Mr. Alphonse Gages be requested to continue his Experiments on 
the Chemico-Mechanical Analysis of Minerals; and that the sum of £10 be 
placed at his disposal for the purpose. 
That a Committee, consisting of Sir R. I. Murchison, Mr. Page, and Pro- 
fessor A. C. Ramsay, be requested to direct Mr. Robert Slimmon to pursue 
his Researches in Developing the Fossil Contents of the Upper Silurian 
Rocks of Lanarkshire; and that the sum of £20 be placed at their disposal 
for the purpose. 
(The specimens collected to be given in the first place to the Public 
Museum in Edinburgh ; the duplicates to be then presented to the Public 
