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Your Committee also recommend that the two vacancies caused by the retirement from Parliament of Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., and Mr. Heywood, be filled by the election of the Right Honourable Joseph Napier, M.P. for the University of Dublin, and Edward Cooper, Esq., F.R.S., of Markree Castle, M.P. for the County of Sligo.

We have also to report the loss of the services of Mr. John Ball. His scientific knowledge and zeal in the cause rendered him a valuable Member of your Committee. This vacancy still remains to be supplied by the General Committee.

14th August, 1857.

WROTTESLEY, Chairman.

RECOMMENDATIONS ADOPTED by the GeneRAL COMMITTEE AT THE DUBLIN MEETING IN AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER 1857.

[When Committees are appointed, the Member first named is regarded as the Secretary of the Committee, except there be a specific nomination.]

Involving Grants of Money.

That the sum of £500 be placed at the disposal of the Council for the maintaining the Establishment and providing for the continuance of Special Researches at Kew Observatory.

That Professor Maskelyne, Mr. Hardwich, Mr. Llewellyn, and Mr. Hadow, be a Committee to report on Researches on the Chemistry of Photography; with £10 at their disposal.

That Dr. A. Voelcker be requested to make Researches and Experiments on the Constituents of Manures; with £25 at his disposal for the purpose. That Professor Sullivan be requested to make Experiments on the Solubility of Salts at temperatures above 100° Cent., and on the mutual action of Salts in Solution; with £20 at his disposal for the purpose.

That Mr. Robert Mallet, C.E., be requested to continue his Experiments on Earthquake Waves; with £50 at his disposal for the purpose.

That Mr. E. P. Wright, Professor Melville, and Professor Kinahan, be a Committee to report on the Dredging of the Coast of Ireland; with £10 at their disposal for the purpose.

That Mr. W. Keddie and Mr. Connal be requested to report on the Vegetable Imports of Scotland; with £10 at their disposal for the purpose.

That Professor Henslow, Professor Phillips, Sir W. Jardine, Mr. C. C. Babington, Professor Balfour, Professor Owen, Dr. Hooker, Mr. J. S. Bowerbank, Rev. M. J. Berkeley, Professor Huxley, and Dr. Lankester, be a Committee to report on Typical Forms for Museums; with £10 at their disposal for the purpose.

That the Rev. C. P. Miles, Professor Balfour, Dr. Greville, and Mr. C. Eyton, be a Committee to report on the Dredging of the West Coast of Scotland; with £25 at their disposal for the purpose.

That Professor Bell, Dr. Williams, and Dr. Lankester, be a Committee for the purpose of completing a Report on the British Annelida; with £25 at their disposal.

That Dr. Daubeny be requested to conclude the Experiments on the Growth and Vitality of Seeds; with £5 5s. at his disposal for the purpose. That Dr. Daubeny, Mr. C. C. Babington, Professor Buckman, and Dr. Voelcker, be a Committee to report on Researches on the Growth of Plants; with £10 at their disposal.

That Professor Kinahan, Mr. E. P. Wright, Mr. J. R. Green, and Dr. Carte, be a Committee to report on the Dredging in the Dublin district; with £10 at their disposal.

That Mr. R. Patterson, Professor Dickie, Professor W. Thomson, and Mr. Hyndman, be a Committee to report on the Dredging on the North Coast of Ireland; with £20 at their disposal.

That Mr. G. Rennie, C.E., be requested to continue his Experiments on the production of Heat by motion in Fluids; with £20 at his disposal for the purpose.

That Mr. James Thomson, C.E., be requested to continue his Experiments on the Measurement of the Discharge of Water; with £10 at his disposal for the purpose.

Involving Applications to Government or Public Institutions. Resolved,-That it is of great importance to the progress of Science that the Magnetic Observations which have already added so much to our knowledge of terrestrial magnetism, should be continued. That the influence of the Association will be well employed in attaining this object, and that it is desirable to obtain the cooperation of the Royal Society. That a Committee be appointed, consisting of the President, the Rev. Dr. Robinson, and MajorGeneral Sabine, to request, on the part of the British Association, the cooperation of the President and Council of the Royal Society, and to take in conjunction with them such steps as may appear necessary, including, if it be thought desirable, an application to Government.

That Lord Wrottesley, Dr. Robinson, Mr. Osler, General Sabine, Mr. Welsh, Sir W. S. Harris, and Dr. Whewell, be appointed a Committee to express to the Board of Trade the wish of the British Association that selfrecording Anemometrical Instruments should be established on some of the islands in the Atlantic Ocean, in aid of the Meteorological Observations now being carried on on ship-board under the direction of the Meteorological department of the Board of Trade.

That application be made to Her Majesty's Government to send a vessel to examine and survey the entrance to the Zambesi River in South Africa, and to ascend the river as far as may be practicable for navigation. That the following Gentlemen be appointed a deputation to make the application The President, Sir R. I. Murchison, Sir H. Rawlinson, General Sabine, Mr. Macgregor Laird.

That the President, the Lord Wrottesley, the Right Honourable J. Napier, Dr. Robinson, and Major-General Sabine, be a Committee for the purpose of making application to the Government to send a vessel to the vicinity of Mackenzie River, to make a series of magnetic observations, with special reference to the determination of the laws now known to rule the magnetic

storms.

It having been found that the application of science to the improvement of Steam-ships has been impeded by the difficulty of obtaining the necessary data from the present registration,--Resolved-That a Committee be appointed and authorized to communicate, if necessary, with the Board of Trade on the subject;-the Committee to consist of Admiral Moorsom, Mr. J. Scott Russell, Mr. J. E. M'Connell, Mr. Charles Atherton, Mr. William Fairbairn, Mr. J. Perry, Mr. Henry Wright, Mr. Henderson.

Applications for Reports and Researches.

That Dr. Odling be requested to prepare a Report on the recent progress of Organic Chemistry.

That Professor Haughton and Mr. David Forbes, F.G.S., be requested to furnish a Report on the state of our knowledge of the Mineralogical and Chemical composition of Rocks of an Igneous origin.

That Professor Oldham be requested to prepare a Report on the state of our knowledge of the Geology of India.

That Mr. A. H. Haliday, Professor Kinahan, and Mr. Wright, be requested to prepare a Supplement to the Fauna of Ireland, comprising the additions made thereto since the Report of the late Mr. William Thompson.

That Mr. W. Andrews be requested to report on the Species of Fishes which occur on the West Coast of Ireland.

That Mr. J. R. Green be requested to report on the present state of our knowledge of the Discoid Medusidæ of the British Seas.

That Professor Kinahan be requested to prepare a Report on the Crustacea of Dublin Bay.

That Mr. Oldham be requested to continue his researches on SteamNavigation at Hull.

Communications to be printed entire among the Reports.

Gustaf Plarr.-On some Transformations of a Series of Factorial Exponentials.

Herren Schlagintweit.-On some Physical Observations made in India. Mr. Commissioner Hargreaves. On the Algebraic Couple.

Mr. A. Grubb. On the Improvement of the Reflecting Telescope and the Equatorial Mounting.

Mr. Oldham.-On Steam-Navigation at Hull.
Mr. C. Vignoles.-On Suspension Bridges.
Mr. P. Barlow.-On Suspension Bridges.

Synopsis of Grants of Money appropriated to Scientific Objects by the General Committee at the Dublin Meeting in August and September 1857, 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
Chemical Science.

MASKELYNE, Prof.-Chemistry of Photography
VOELCKER, Prof.-On Constituents of Manures.
SULLIVAN, Prof.-Solubility of Salts

Geology.

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MALLET, R., C.E.-Earthquake Wave Experiments .....

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KEDDIE, W.-Vegetable Imports of Scotland..

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HENSLOW, Prof.-Typical Forms for Museums

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MILES, Rev. C. P.-Dredging West Coast of Scotland.
BELL, Prof.-Report on Annelida

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DAUBENY, Dr.-Experiments on Vitality of Seeds.

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KINAHAN, Prof.-Dredging near Dublin

DAUBENY, Dr.-Growth of Plants

PATTERSON, R.-Dredging North Coast of Ireland

Mechanical Science.

RENNIE, G.-Production of Heat in Fluids
THOMSON, J.-Discharge of Water...

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