80 THE ATLANTIC. (CHAP. I. 
the civilian scientific staff of the expedition, Wyville Thomson, LL.D., 
F.R.S., ete., Regius Professor of Natural History in the University of 
Edinburgh; and that, as Professor Thomson will have to give up his 
position, with its emoluments, at Edinburgh for the time he is absent, 
the President and Council are of opinion that a less sum than 1000/. 
per annum can not properly be offered to him. 
“They propose that the other members of the staff and their salaries 
should be as follows: 
Mr. John James Wild, as Secretary to the Director and Artist............... £400 
Mr. John Young Buchanan, M.A., Principal Laboratory Assistant in the Uni- 
versity of Edinburgh, as Chemist and Physicist....................--- 200 
Mr. Henry Nottidge Moseley, B.A. (Oxon.), Radcliffe Traveling Fellow of Oxford 
Wintversity, as Naturalist: so): .crec0,</<sere. erueis eitnersmee te sieere savensne uae oe aera 200 
Dr. William Stirling, D.Sc. (Edin.), M.B., Falconer Fellow of the University of 
Hdinburehy as Naturalists 2.252 at «les salserasis ome oa): coro tlelieis eer sere 200 
Mr dohnyMurray. as: Naturalist.y2-% <5 </sicie lols sieislo sigicts areas chen aciebnereonars 200 
“The Committee further report that Prof. Wyville Thomson in- 
formed them that he had gone with Admiral Richards to Sheerness to 
examine the Challenger, and that the arrangements appeared to be sat- 
isfactory in every respect.” 
Resolved, That the Report of the Circumnavigation Committee be 
adopted, and that a communication be made to the Admiralty in 
terms of their recommendation. 
November 14th, 1872. 
The Council proceeded to consider the Report of the Circumnaviga- 
tion Committee. 
The following is the letter from the Admiralty to which the Report 
refers : 
“ ADMIRALTY, August 22d, 1872. 
‘““S1r,— With reference to my letter of the 6th inst., and to previ- 
ous correspondence on the subject of the intended Deep-sea Explora- 
tory Expedition, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the 
Admiralty to acquaint you that H.M.S. Challenger will probably be 
ready to leave this country about the end of November; and their lord- 
ships will be glad to learn what are the precise objects of research which 
the President and Council of the Royal Society have in view, and in 
what particular portions of the ocean such investigations may, in their 
opinion, be carried out with the greatest advantage to science and the 
best probability of success. 
