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scientific inquiry, so that they might be able to report to the Council, 
and enable it to lay that scheme (if approved) before the Government 
by the end of November. 
“Believe me, dear Professor Stokes, yours faithfully, 
“WititraM Bb, Carpenter. 
“ Professor Stokes.” 
Resolved, That the subject of Dr. Carpenter's letter be taken into 
consideration at an early meeting of the Council after the recess. 
October 26th, 1871. 
In reference to the subject of Dr. Carpenter’s letter of the 15th June, 
read at the last meeting of Council, the Secretary stated that he had 
received a subsequent letter from him, dated Malta, 29th September, 
which was now read. In this letter Dr. Carpenter urges the expedi- 
ency of making arrangements for the proposed circumnavigating ex- 
pedition without delay, and communicates a correspondence with the 
First Lord of the Admiralty, from which it appears that H.M. Govern- 
ment will be prepared to give the requisite aid in furtherance of such 
an expedition on receipt of a formal application from the Royal Soci- 
ety; and in consequence of this information, Dr. Carpenter now sug- 
gests a modification in the composition of the Committee to which, in 
his former letter, he had proposed that the matter should be referred. 
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to consider the plan of 
operations it would be advisable to follow in the proposed expe- 
dition, the staff of scientific superintendents and assistants to be 
employed, and the different provisions and arrangements to be 
made, with an estimate of the probable expense, and to submit to 
the Council for approval a scheme which might be laid before 
H.M. Government, if the Council see fit, at as early a period as 
may be conyenient. The Committee to consist of the President 
and officers of the Royal Society, Dr. Carpenter, Dr. Frankland, 
Dr. Hooker, Professor Huxley, the Hydrographer of the Admi- 
ralty, Mr. Gwyn Jeffreys, Mr. Siemens, Sir William Thomson, Dr. 
Wyville Thomson, and Dr. Williamson, with power to add to their 
number. 
November 30th, 1871. 
The following Report of the Committee on the proposed yoyage of 
circumnavigation was read: 
