ON THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE. V 



Society. It is purposed that it should include the titles (in the original 

 languages) of all memoirs published in such works, in the mathemat- 

 ical, physical, and natural sciences, from the foundation of the Royal 

 Society to the present time, the titles to be so arranged as to form 

 ultimately three catalogues one chronological, or in the order of the 

 memoirs in the several series; one alphabetical, according to authors' 

 names, and, lastly, a third, classified according to subjects. 



The Council, moreover, lament that their application to the Gov- 

 ernment for an expedition to the vicinity of Mackenzie's river, for the 

 purpose of observations in terrestrial magnetism, was not successful ; 

 but they anticipate an important accession to scientific knowledge from 

 the expedition to the Zambesi river, which was sanctioned by the 

 Government, and sent out under Dr. Livingstone. 



The following resolutions were adopted: Resolved, that represen- 

 tations be made to the Meteorological department of the Board of 

 Trade, of desirableness of connecting with its arrangements a system 

 for the observation and record of Oceanic and Littoral Earthquakes, 

 and of the occasional occurrence upon the coasts of Great Sea Waves, 

 and, if practicable, of bringing such into immediate operation. 



That it is highly desirable that a series of Magnetical and Meteoro- 

 logical Observations, on the same plan as those which have been 

 already carried on in the Colonial Observatories for that purpose 

 under the direction of Her Majesty's Board of Ordnance, be obtained 

 to extend over a period of not more than five years, at the following 

 stations: 1. Vancouver's Island; 2. Newfoundland; 3. The Falkland 

 Isles ; 4. Pekin, or some near adjacent station. 



That an application be made to Her Majesty's Government to obtain 

 the establishment of Observatories at these stations for the above- 

 mentioned term, on a personal and material footing, and under the 

 same superintendence as in the Observatories (now discontinued) at 

 Toronto, St. Helena, and Van Diemen's Land. 



That provision be also requested at the hands of Her Majesty's 

 Government, for the execution, within the period embraced by the ob- 

 servations, of magnetic surveys in the districts immediately adjacent to 

 those sattions, viz., of the whole of Vancouver's Island and the shores 

 of the Strait separating it from the main land, of the Falkland Isl- 

 ands, and of the immediate neighborhood of the Chinese Observa- 

 tory (if practicable), where situated, on the plan of the surveys 

 already executed in the British possessions in North America and in 

 the Indian Archipelago. 



An interesting map has been prepared, under the auspices of the 

 Association, by Robert Mallet, of Dublin, with a view of illustrating 

 the surface distribution of earthquakes, the position and situation of all 

 volcanoes, fumaroles, and solfataras, now active, or presumed to have 

 been so, within historic or recent geologic periods, as well as the seismic 

 (from the Greek word signifying earthquakes) bands in position and 



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