Report of the Annual Meeting

M.P., The Right Hon. Sir C. B. Adderley, M.P., Mr. Samual Brown, Dr. Farr, Mr. Frank P. Fellowes, Professor Frankland, Mr. James Heywood, Professor Leone Levi, Mr. C. W. Siemens, Professor A. W. Williamson, Dr. George Glover, Sir Joseph Whitworth, Bart., Mr. J. R. Napier, Mr. J. V. N. Bazalgette, and Sir W. Fairbairn, Bart.; that Professor Leone Levi be the Secretary, and that the sum of £75 be placed at their disposal for the purpose of being applied solely to scientific purposes, printing, and correspondence.

That Professor W. J. Macquorn Rankine, Mr. Froude, Mr. C. W. Merrifield, Mr. C.W. Siemens, Mr. Bramwell, Mr. L. E. Fletcher, and Mr. James R. Napier be a Committee for the purpose of making experiments on instruments for Measuring the Speed of Ships and Currents by means of the difference of height of two columns of liquids; that Mr. Fletcher be the Secretary, and that the sum of £30 be placed at their disposal for the purpose.

That Mr. R. B. Grantham, Professor Corfield, M.B., Mr. J. Bailey Denton, Dr. J. H. Gilbert, Mr. J. Thornhill Harrison, Mr. William Hope, Lieut.Col. Leach, Dr. A. Voelcker, and Professor A. W. Williamson be a Committee for the purpose of continuing the investigations on the "Treatment and Utilization of Sewage ;" that the balance of the funds raised by the Committee appointed at Exeter, and now in the hands of the General Treasurer, be placed at their disposal for the purpose.

Applications for Reports and Researches not involving Grants of Money.

That the Committee, consisting of Dr. Joule, Sir W. Thomson, Professor Tait, Professor Balfour Stewart, and Professor J. C. Maxwell, be reappointed to effect the determination of the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat.

That Sir W. Thomson, Professor Everett, Professor G. C. Foster, Professor J. C. Maxwell, Mr. G. J. Stoney, Professor Fleeming Jenkin, Professor Rankine, Mr. Siemens, and Mr. Bramwell be a Committee for the purpose of framing a nomenclature of Units of Force and Energy.

That Professor Sylvester, Professor Cayley, Professor Hirst, Rev. Professor Bartholomew Price, Professor H. J. S. Smith, Dr. Spottiswoode, Mr. R. B. Hayward, Dr. Salmon, Rev. R. Townsend, Professor Fuller, Professor Kelland, Mr. J. M. Wilson, and Professor Clifford be reappointed a Committee (with power to add to their number) for the purpose of considering the possibility of improving the methods of instruction in elementary geometry; and that Professor Clifford be the Secretary.

That Mr. W. H. L. Russell be requested to continue his Report on recent progress in the theory of Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Functions.

That Mr. Carruthers, Dr. Hooker, Professor Balfour, and Mr. Dyer be a Committee for the purpose of investigating the Fossil Flora of Britain.

That Rev. Canon Tristram, Professor Newton, Mr. H. E. Dresser, Mr. J. E. Harting, and Rev. H. F. Barnes be reappointed a Committee for the purpose of continuing the investigation on the desirability of establishing a close time" for the preservation of indigenous animals; and that the Rev. Canon Tristram be the Secretary.

That Dr. Rolleston, Dr. Sclater, Dr. Dohrn, Professor Huxley, Professor Wyville Thomson, and Mr. E. Ray Lankester be a Committee for the purpose of promoting the foundation of Zoological Stations; and that Dr. Anton Dohrn be the Secretary.

That the Committee appointed last year "to consider and report on the various plans proposed for legislating on the subject of Steam-boiler Explosions

with a view to their prevention" be requested to continue their labours; such Committee to consist of Sir W. Fairbairn, Bart., Mr. John Penn, Mr. F. J. Bramwell, Mr. Hugh Mason, Mr. Samuel Rigby, Mr. Thomas Schofield, Mr. C. F. Beyer, Mr. T. Webster, Q.C., Mr. Lavington E. Fletcher, and Mr. Edward Easton, with power to add to their number.

That Mr. Bateman, Mr. Le Neve Foster, Mr. Merrifield, Mr. Edward Easton, Mr. F. J. Bramwell, Mr. W. Hope, and Mr. H. Bauerman be a Committee to consider the mode in which new inventions, and claims for reward in respect of adopted inventions, are examined and dealt with by the different Departments of Government, and to report on the best means of removing any real causes of dissatisfaction, as well as of silencing unfounded complaints.

That a Committee be appointed

1o, to consider and report on the best means of advancing science by
Lectures, with authority to act, subject to the approval of the
Council, in the course of the present year, if judged desirable.
2o, to consider and report whether any steps can be taken to render
scientific organization more complete and effectual.

That the Committee consist of the following Members, with power to add to their number:-Professor Roscoe, Professor W. G. Adams, Professor Andrews, Professor Balfour, Mr. Bramwell, Professor A. Crum Brown, Mr. Dyer, Sir Walter Elliot, Professor Flower, Professor G. C. Foster, Professor Geikie, Rev. R. Harley, Professor Huxley, Professor Fleeming Jenkin, Dr. Joule, Colonel Lane Fox, Dr. Lankester, Mr. J. N. Lockyer, Dr. O'Callaghan, Professor Ramsay, Professor Balfour Stewart, Mr. Stainton, Professor Tait, Mr. J. A. Tinné, Dr. Allen Thomson, Sir William Thomson, Professor Wyville Thomson, Professor Turner, Professor A. W. Williamson, Dr. Young; and that Professor Roscoe be the Secretary.

Resolutions involving Applications to Government.

That the President and Council of the British Association be authorized to cooperate with the President and Council of the Royal Society, in whatever way may seem to them best, for the promotion of a Circumnavigation Expedition, specially fitted out to carry the Physical and Biological Exploration of the Deep Sea into all the Great Oceanic areas.

That the President and General Officers, with power to add to their number, be requested to take such steps as may seem to them desirable in order to promote observations on the forthcoming Total Solar Eclipse.

Communications ordered to be printed in extenso in the Annual Report of the Association.

That the letter of Lavoisier to Black, referred to in the Address of the President of the Chemical Section, be printed in the Annual Report; and that the letter dated 19th November, 1790, be published in facsimile.

That Mr. Bramwell's paper "On Experiments made with Carr's Disintegrating Flour-mill" be printed in extenso in the Transactions of the Association.

Resolutions referred to the Council for consideration and action if it seem desirable.

That it is desirable that the British Association apply to the Treasury for funds to enable the Tidal Committee to continue their calculations.

That it is desirable that the British Association should urge upon the Government of India the importance for navigation and other practical purposes, and for science, of making accurate and continued observations on the Tides at several points on the coast of India.

That the Council of the Association be requested to take such steps as to them may seem most expedient in support of a proposal, made by Dr. Buys Ballot, to establish a telegraphic meteorological station at the Azores.

That the Council be requested to take into consideration the desirability of the publication of a periodic record of advances made in the various branches of science represented by the British Association.

That the Council of this Association be requested to take such steps as may appear to them desirable with reference to the arrangement now in contemplation to establish "leaving Examinations," and to report to the Association on the present position of science-teaching in the public and first-grade schools.

That the Council be requested to take such steps as they deem wisest in order to promote the introduction of scientific instruction into the elementary schools throughout the country.

Synopsis of Grants of Money appropriated to Scientific Purposes by the General Committee at the Edinburgh Meeting in August 1871. The names of the Members who would be entitled to call on the General Treasurer for the respective Grants are prefixed.

Kew Observatory.

The Council.-Maintaining the Establishment of Kew Obser

servatory

Mathematics and Physics.

Cayley, Professor.-Mathematical Tables

*Crossley, Mr.-Discussion of Observations of Lunar Objects..

*Tait, Professor.-Thermal Conductivity of Metals.

*Thomson, Professor Sir W.-Tidal Observations

Huggins, Dr. Tables of Inverse Wave-lengths

Chemistry.

*Williamson, Prof. A. W.-Reports of the Progress of Chemistry Williamson, Prof. A. W.-Testing Siemens's new Pyrometer. Gladstone, Dr.-Chemical Constitution and Optical Properties of Essential Oils....

*Brown, Dr. Crum.-Thermal Equivalent of the Oxides of Chlorine ...

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* Reappointed.

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