SYNOPSIS. XXV 



Section G. £ *. d. 



Dynamometric Instruments 100 



Forms of Vessels 150 



Constant Indicator to Locomotives 100 



£350 

 Total of Money Grants .... £3033 9 6 



Extracts from Resolutions of the General Committee. 



Committees and individuals, to whom grants of money for scientific pur- 

 poses have been entrusted, are required to present to each following meeting 

 of the Association a Report of the progress which has been made ; with a 

 statement of the sums which have been expended, and the balance which re- 

 mains disposable on each grant. 



Grants of pecuniary aid for scientific purposes from the funds of the Asso- 

 ciation expire at the ensuing meeting, unless it shall appear by a Report that 

 the Recommendations have been acted on, or a continuation of them be 

 ordered by the General Committee. 



In each Committee, the Member first named is the person entitled to call 

 on the Treasurer, John Taylor, Esq., 2 Duke Street, Adelphi, London, for 

 such portion of the sum granted as may from time to time be required. 



In grants of money to Committees, the Association does not contemplate 

 the payment of personal expenses to the Members. 



In all cases where additional grants of money are made for the continua- 

 tion of Researches at the cost of the Association, the sum named shall be 

 deemed to include the specified balance which may remain unpaid on the 

 former grant for the same object. 



On Thursday evening, July 29th, at 8 p.m., the President, the Rev. W. 

 "Whewell, M.A., F.R.S., Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of 

 Cambridge, took the Chair in the Town Hall, Devonport, and read an Ad- 

 dress (see next page). 



On Friday evening, July 30th, in the same room, Mr. Chatfield, of H. M. 

 Dock Yard, Devonport, gave an account of the construction and launch- 

 ing of ships, with reierence to the launch of the Hindostan (80 guns) on 

 Monday evening. 



On Tuesday evening, August 3rd, Mr. Dent explained a new Clock ; Dr. 

 Reid illustrated his processes of Ventilation ; Mr. De Moleyns exhibited a 

 Voltaic Battery ; and Mr. Brunei described the Thames Tunnel. 



On Wednesday, at 8 p.m., the Concluding General Meeting of the 

 Association took place in the Town Hall, Devonport, when an account of the 

 Proceedings of the General Committee Avas read bv Colonel Sabine. 



