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ciety and of the British Association. The Kew observatory owes its 

 existence and maintenance to funds most liberally supplied from year 

 to year by the British Association ; and the cost of the self-recording 

 magnetic instruments, of which the first installment of the results has 

 formed the early part of this paper, was supplied from funds at the 

 disposal of the Council of the Koyal Society. Magnetical science, rap- 

 idly as it is advancing, is even yet in its infancy ; and it is in their 

 early stages particularly that all branches of natural knowledge stand 

 in need of the fostering aid of societies, in which science is valued and 

 cultivated for its own sake. 



