Annual Report of the Council. xxix 



The Committees appointed by the Council during the year 

 were as follows : — 



House and Fina?ice. 



The President. Professor S. J. Hickson. 



Mr. Francis Jones. Mr. W. H. Todd. 



Mr. C. L. Barnes. Dr. H. G. A. Hickling. 

 Mr. R. L. Taylor. 



Editoi'ial 



The President. Mr. R. F. Gwyther. 



Professor S. J. Hickson. Mr. R. L. Taylok. 



Dr. H. G. A. Hickling. The Assistant Secretary. 



Wilde Endowment. 

 The President. Mr. W. H. Todd. 



Mr. Francis Jones. Mr. R. L. Taylor. 



Dr. H. G. A. Hickling. 



Special Lib?-ary Committee. 

 The President. Mr. Francis Jones. 



Professor S. J. Hickson. Mr. C. L. Barnes. 



Professor VV. W. Haldane Gee. Mr. R. F. Gwyther. 

 Mr. R. L. Taylor. Dr. H. G. A. Hickling. 



The Assistant Secretary. ' 



Emile-Hilaire Amagat was born in 1840, and after 

 holding several minor appointments became a professor at the 

 Ecole Normal, Cluny, in 1867. He was subsequently elected 

 to a similar appointment at the Catholic University, Lyons, and 

 might have had a professorship at the Ecole Polytechnique, at 

 Paris, but preferred to remain examiner to that institution. 



Like Regnault, Natterer, Andrews, Despretz, and Cailletet, 

 he became interested in the product pv as applied to fluids, but 

 obtained accurate results on a more heroic scale than they. He 

 utilised a church tower at Cluny for supporting a mercury 



