28 On the Visitation of Greenwich Observatory. 



servatory at Greenwich, during His said Majesty's pleasure. 

 Now know ye, that we have revoked and determined, and do 

 by these presents revoke and determine, the said appointment, 

 and every clause, article and thing therein contained. And 

 further know ye, that we having been given to understand that 

 it would contribute very much to the improvement of astro- 

 nomy and navigation if we should appoint regular Visitors of 

 our Royal Observatory at Greenwich with sufficient powers 

 for the due execution of that trust, we have therefore thought 

 fit, in consideration of the great learning, experience, and other 

 necessary qualifications of our Royal Society and of the Astro- 

 nomical Society, to constitute and appoint, as we do by these 

 presents constitute and appoint, you the President for the time 

 being of our Royal Society, together with our trusty and well- 

 beloved John W. Lubbock, Esq.; Captain Henry Kater; 

 George Peacock, Clerk; William Pearson, Clerk, Doctor in 

 Divinity; and Richard Sheepshanks, Clerk, Fellows thereof: 

 and you the President of the said Astronomical Society, 

 together with our trusty and well-beloved Charles Babbage, 

 Esq. ; Francis Baily, Esq. ; Captain Francis Beaufort ; Doctor 

 Olinthus Gregory; and J. F. W. Herschel, Esq., Members 

 thereof; and likewise the Savilian Professor of Astronomy at 

 Oxford, and the Plumian Professor of Astronomy at Cam- 

 bridge, for the time being, to be regular Visitors of our Royal 

 Observatory at Greenwich during our pleasure; authorizing 

 and requiring you from time to time to order and direct our 

 said astronomer and keeper of our said Royal Observatory 

 to make such astronomical observations as you in your judge- 

 ment shall think proper : and that you do survey and inspect 

 our instruments in our said Observatory ; and as often as any 

 of them shall be found defective, that you do inform our Lord 

 High Admiral (or the Commissioners for executing the office 

 of Lord High Admiral), that so the said instruments may either 

 be exchanged or repaired : and that you do from time to time 

 make such suggestions and representations to our Lord High 

 Admiral (or to the Commissioners for executing the office of 

 Lord High Admiral), touching the said Observatory, the li- 

 brary, the instruments, and the observations, as in your judge- 

 ment will be conducive to the credit of our Observatory, and 

 to the promotion of astronomical and nautical science. And 

 our further will and pleasure is, that our astronomer and 

 keeper of the said Observatory for the time being, do deliver 

 to you every three months a true and fair copy of all the ob- 

 servations he shall have made, and that such number of copies 

 of the said observations be printed as the Lord High Admiral 

 (or the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High 



Admiral) 



