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iu favour of the latter, and reported at the Ipswich Meeting in 1895 that it had 

 applied to the Royal Society for an allocation of £500 from the Government Grant, and 

 that this Society, as a preliminary to discussing the application, was making certain 

 inquiries from the Admiralty, an answer to which had not yet arrived. The Committee 

 accordingly asked to be reappointed, with a renewal of last year's grant, which, as it 

 had not been required, still remained unexpended, and their requests were conceded. 

 At the Liverpool Meeting, in September 1896, the Committee briefly reported the 

 steps which had been taken by the Royal Society, the result of which, as will be seen, 

 was the Expedition headed by Professor Sollas, and that, as they were informed 

 by a message just received from him, his second attempt at making a deep boring had 

 been hardly more successful than the first. The Committee also suggested that as 

 the cost of the undertaking was almost certain to exceed the £800 granted by the 

 Royal Society, the Association should augment the funds by a liberal contribution. 



The Committee was accordingly reappointed, and a grant made of £40. As the 

 anticipated need of money had not arisen, the Committee did not draw this grant, 

 and reported the fact at the Toronto Meeting in 1897, urging at the same time 

 that as another Expedition had been already sent out from Sydney, the unused grant 

 should form a subscription towards its expense. This was done and the Committee 

 reappointed for another year. At the Bristol Meeting in 1898, the Committee came to 

 an end by reporting that Professor David's Expedition had been successful, and that 

 the contribution had been paid over to him. 



A brief outline must now be given of the part taken by the Royal Society, after 

 the undertaking had been brought before them formally by the recommendation 

 of the Government Grant Committee, that, prior to granting the above-named sum of 

 £500, the Ofiicers and Council of the Royal Society should be requested to apply to 

 the Admiralty for the services of a surveying vessel in 1896 for the purposes of that 

 research. It had also been stated to the Committee that the Government of New 

 South Wales was prepared to assist the undertaking by a free loan of a diamond-boring 

 apparatus. 



The Council after consideration of the reports laid before it, passed the following 

 resolution (see 'Minutes,' October 31, 1895). 



Professor Bonney having, in reference to the Expedition for boring a Coral Reef (see 'Minutes,' 

 October 17), reported a resohition of a Committee appointed by the British Association, requesting the 

 Royal Society to appoint a Committee who would undertake the supervision of arrangements for the 

 investigation, and having further reported that the estimate of expenses upon inquiry and consideration 

 had been reduced to £800. 



Resolved : That the following gentlemen be a Committee to superintend the arrangements for the 

 Expedition to Bore a Coral Reef as proposed in Application D 22 (1895) :— Mr. Wolfe Baery, Professor 

 BoNNEY, Mr. Crookes, Sir A. Geikie, Mr. F. Darwin, Professor Judd, Dr. J. Murray, Professor 

 SOLLAS, Mr. Watts, and Admiral Wharton ; Professor Bonney to be Chairman, and Professor Sollas 

 and Mr. Watts to be Secretaries. 



It was further Resolved: That the Treasurer be authorised to apply to the Government Grant 

 Committee for an assignment of £800 from the Reserve Fund, in aid of the Expedition. 



