Xxii EIGHTH REPORT 1838. 



deficiency yet existing in our knowledge of Terrestrial Magnet- 

 ism in the Southern Hemisphere should be supplied by obser- 

 vations of the magnetic direction and intensity, especially in the 

 higher latitudes, between the meridians of New Holland and 

 Cape Horn ; and they desire strongly to recommend to Her 

 Majesty's Government the appointment of a naval expedition 

 directed expressly to that object. 



5. That in the event of such expedition being undertaken, it 

 would be desirable that the officer charged with its conduct should 

 prosecute both branches of observations alluded to in Resolu- 

 tion 3, so far as circumstances will permit. 



6. That it would be most desirable that the observations so 

 performed, both in the fixed stations and in the course of the 

 expedition, should be communicated to Prof. Lloyd. 



7. That Sir John Herschel, Mr. Whewell, Mr. Peacock, and 

 Prof. Lloyd be appointed a Committee to represent to Govern- 

 ment these recommendations. 



8. That the same gentlemen be empowered to act as a Com- 

 mittee, with power to add to their numbei', for the purpose of 

 drawing up plans of Scientific cooperation, &c. &c., relating to 

 the subject, and reporting to the Association. 



9. That the sum of 400/. be placed at the disposal of the 

 above-named Committee, for the purposes above mentioned*. 



ASTRONOMY. 



Sir J. Herschel and Mr. Baily were requested to make 

 application to Government for increase in the instrumental 

 power of the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope, and 

 the addition of at least one assistant to that establishment. 



SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES IN INDIA. 



Resolved, — 1. That the British Association regard the mea- 

 surement of an arc of longitude in India comparable in extent 

 to the meridional arc ah'eady measured in that country, as a 

 most important contribution to other facts illustrative of the 

 earth's true figure, and, by a necessary con sequence, jto the pro- 

 gress of astronomy. 



2. That the verification and comparison of the standards of the 

 Indian and English surveys, as compared with the proposed 

 Parliamentary standard, is indispensable to the correct know- 

 ledge of the meridional and parallel arcs. 



• The application to Government on this subject has been successful, the 

 command of an expedition to the Antarctic regions being entrtisted to Capt. 

 J. C. Ross. 



