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their Experiments on the Friction of Discs in Water, and on Centrifugal 
Pumps. 
That a Committee, consisting of the Earl of Harrowby, Admiral Beechey, 
Mr. Joseph Brooks Yates, Mr. Joseph Boult, Sir R. I. Murchison, and Mr. 
George Rennie, be appointed to investigate and report upon the effects pro¬ 
duced upon the channel of the Mersey by the alterations which within the 
last fifty years have been made in its banks; — Mr. Boult to be Secretary of 
the Committee. 
That Mr. John Scott Russell be requested to prepare a report on the pre¬ 
sent state of our knowledge of Naval Architecture. 
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Printing of Communications. 
That the Paper by Mr. W. G. Armstrong, F.R.S., on Various Applications 
of Water-pressure Machinery, be published in exlenso in the Report. 
That a Communication by Mr. Follett Osier, entitled “Description of the 
Anemometer erected at the Observatory,” with report on the Observations 
made therewith, be printed entire in the volume for this year. 
Synopsis of Grants of Money appropriated to Scientific Objects by the 
General Committee at the Liverpool Meeting in Sept. 1854 , with the 
name of the Member, who alone, or as the First of a Committee , is 
entitled to draw for the Money. 
Kew Observatory. £ 
At the disposal of the Council for defraying Expenses. 500 
Mathematics and Physics. 
Rosse, Earl of.— Physical Aspect of the Moon. 2 5 
Geology. 
Mallet, Mr. R.—Earthquake Movements. 50 
Phillips, Prof* John.—Tabular Views of Strata .. 15 
Zoology and Botany. 
At the disposal of the Council—For Ornithological Synonyms 100 
Lank ester, Dr.—Periodical Phenomena....... . 10 
Dacbeny, Dr—Vitality of Seeds. 11 
Henslow, Prof.—Typical Objects for Museums ’ ......” 10 
Patterson, Mr. R.—Dredging near Belfast. 10 
Geography and Ethnology. 
Murchison, Sir R—Map of the World. 
Coxolly, Dr—Ethnological Queries ..... 
Grants.... £751 
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