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To consider proposals for the Legislative Protection of Wild Birds'
Eggs. Chairman.—Mr. Thomas Henry Thomas. Secretary.—Dr. C. T.
Vachell. Professors W. N. Parker, Newton, and Leipner, Mr. Poulton, and
Canon Tristram.
Recording the Position, Height above the Sea, Lithological
Characters, Size, and Origin of the Erratic Blocks of England,
Wales, and Ireland, reporting other matters of Interest connected
with the same, and taking measures for their preservation. Chair-
man.—Professor E. Hull. Secretary.—Mr. P. F. Kendall. Professors W. Boyd
Dawkins, T. McK. Hughes, T. G. Bonney, and J. Prestwich, and Messrs. C. E.
De Rance, R. H. Tiddeman, J. W. Woodall, and Prof. L. C. Miall.
The Rate of Erosion of the Sea-coasts of England and Wales,
and the Influence of the Artificial Abstraction of Shingle or other
material in that action. Chairman.—Mr. W. Whitaker. Secretaries.—Messrs.
C. E. De Rance and W. Topley. Messrs. J. B. Redman and J. W. Woodall,
Maj.-Gen. Sir A. Clarke, Admiral Sir E. Ommanney, Capt. Sir G. Nares, Capt. J.
Parsons, Capt. W. J. L. Wharton, Professor J. Prestwich, and Messrs. E. Easton
and J. S. Valentine, and Professor L. F. Vernon Harcourt.
The Circulation of the Underground Waters in the Permeable
Formations of England, and the Quality and Quantity of the Waters
supplied to various Towns and Districts from these Formations.
And that a Digest of the eighteen Reports should be prepared by
the Committee, and sold in a separate form. Chairmin.—Professor E.
Hull. Secretary—Mr. C. E. De Rance. Dr. H. W. Crosskey, Sir. D. Galton,
Professor J. Prestwich, and Messrs. J. Glaisher, P. Kendall, E. B. Marten, G. H.
Morton, W. Pengelly, J. Plant, I. Roberts, T. S. Stooke, G. J. Symons, W.
Topley, Tylden-Wright, E. Wethered, and W. Whitaker.
The Rate of Increase of Underground Temperature downwards in
various Localities of dry Land and under Water. Chairman.—Professor
Everett. Secretary.—Professor Everett. Professor Lord Kelvin, Mr. G. J.
Symons, Sir A. Geikie, Mr. J. Glaisher, Mr. Pengelly, Professor Edward Hull,
Professor Prestwich, Dr. C. Le Neve Foster, Professor A. S. Herschel, Professor
G. A. Lebour, Mr. A. B. Wynne, Mr. Galloway, Mr. Joseph Dickinson, Mr. G.
F. Deacon, Mr. E. Wethered, Mr. A. Strahan, and Professor Michie Smith.
Considering the advisability and possibility of establishing in other
parts of the country Observations upon the Prevalence of Earth
Tremors similar to those now being made in Durham in connection
with coal mine explosions. Chairman.—Mr. G. J. Symons. Secretary.—
Mr. C. Davison. Sir F. J. Bramwell, Mr. E. A. Cowper, Professor G. H. Darwin,
Professor Ewing, Mr. Isaac Roberts, Mr. Thomas Gray, Sir John Evans, Pro-
fessors Prestwich, Hull, Lebour, Meldola, and Judd, Mr. M. Walton Brown, Mr. J.
Glaisher, Professor C. G. Knott, Professor J. H. Poynting, and Mr. Horace Darwin.
The Collection, Preservation, and Systematic Registration of
Photographs of Geological Interest. Chairman.—Professor J. Geikie.
Secretary.—Mr. O. W. Jeffs. Professors Bonney and Boyd Dawkins, Drs. V. Ball
and T. Anderson, and Messrs. A. S. Reid, E. J. Garwood, W. Gray, H. B. Wood-
ward, J. E. Bedford, R. Kidston, W. W. Watts, J. W. Davis, and R. H. Tiddeman-
The Application of Photography to the Elucidation of Meteoro-
logical Phenomena. Chairman.—Mr. G. J. Symons. Secretary.—Mr. A. W.
Clayden. Professor R. Meldola and Mr. John Hopkinson.