Description | Sir William Crookes in the chair. Lists committee business, including correspondence from the War Office, the Board of Trade and the National Health Commission; consideration of a letter from Sir William Ramsay suggesting that the press be alerted to the existence of the Chemistry Committee in the hopes of achieving greater industry co-operation, and the committee's resolution that 'it is undesirable' for the existence of the committee to be known; further committee appointments; reports from the Physics and Engineering Sub-Committees; a letter from P W Dumas concerning funding for experiments with wireless telegraphy and the Beck lamp. p6-8. |