Report of the Annual Meeting

Involving Applications to Government or Public Institutions.

That a Deputation, consisting of Mr. E. Chadwick, C.B., Mr. J. Heywood, Mr. Marsh, M.P., Dr. Farr, Mr. Tite, M.P., Mr. S. Gregson, M.P., and Col. Sykes, M.P., be requested to wait upon the Secretary of State for the Home Department and the Registrar-General, and represent to them the importance of having prepared Mortuary Statistics in respect to Classes and Occupations, in such forms as were recommended by the International Statistical Congress, or in such other form as will distinguish the Occupations or the Classes of those who die.

That the Committee, consisting of Dr. Robinson, Professor Wheatstone, Dr. Gladstone, and Professor Hennessy, which was appointed at Manchester to confer as to Experiments on Fog Signals, and to act as a Deputation to the Board of Trade, be requested to impress upon the Board the importance of inquiries on the subject.

Communications to be printed entire among the Reports.

That the Extract of Professor De Souza's Report to the Portuguese Government, regarding the Instruments used at Kew Observatory, be printed entire in the Reports.

That Mr. Symons's Papers on Rainfall be printed entire among the Reports. That the Paper by the Astronomer Royal, on the Strains in the interior of Beams and Tubular Bridges, be printed entire among the Reports.

That Mr. Aston's Paper on Projectiles, with reference to their Penetration, be printed entire among the Reports.

That Mr. W. Fairbairn's Paper on the Results of some Experiments on the Mechanical Properties of Projectiles be printed entire among the Reports.

Synopsis of Grants of Money appropriated to Scientific Purposes by the General Committee at the Cambridge Meeting in October 1862, with the name of the Member who alone, or as the First of a Committee, is entitled to draw the Money.