PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEETING. XXXI 



perature of the earth and springs at small and great depths from 

 the surface, and mentioned some of the sources of error in such 

 researches, and the means of obviating them*. 



The Committee came to the following Resolutions : 



That it be represented to the Government of this country that 

 the British Association conceive it would be of great service to 

 science, if magnetical and meteorological observatories were esta- 

 blished in several parts of the earth, furnished with proper in- 

 struments well constructed on uniform principles, and if provi- 

 sion were made for careful and continued observations at those 

 places ; — that in Great Britain and its colonies there are points 

 favourable for such observations ; and that it is the more desirable 

 that the British nation should take a part in carrying them on, 

 since a system of similar observations, as the Association is 

 informed, has begun to be established in France and its de- 

 pendencies. 



That Mr. Baily, Mr. D. Gilbert, Mr. Lubbock, and the Rev. 

 G. Peacock be a Committee to make the required representation 

 to the Government, and to solicit the cooperation of the French 

 Institute. 



That the East India Company be requested to further the 

 same objects, especially at their establishment at Madras. 



That notice be given that any persons who may be able to 

 obtain the temperature of the air, w^ater, and rock, in mines 

 and borings of known depth, or the indications of thermo- 

 meters sunk to different depths, in different kinds of soil and 

 in different parts of the earth, are requested to make known 

 their names and the places where they have this opportunity, in 

 order that they may receive instructions for making such ob- 

 servations, and communicating the results to the Association. 



That Mr. Taylor, Prof. Forbes, Prof. Powell, Mr. R. Fox, 

 Mr. Lubbock, Dr. Dalton, Rev. Dr. Robinson, Prof. Christie, 

 Prof. Lloyd, and Prof. Phillips be a Committee, with power to 

 give instructions and to make arrangements on the subject of 

 the thermometrical observations recommended in the above reso- 

 lution, and that 100^. be placed at their disposal for these ob- 

 jects f. 



That M. Arago be respectfully requested, with the least pos- 

 sible delay, to publish, and to have reduced, his valuable and ex- 

 tensive collection of magnetical observations made at the obser- 

 vatory at Paris. 



• On the subject of Artesian wells, see the Anmiaire for 1835. 



f The Committee has taken steps to have instruments constructed suitable 

 for the experiments in mines, wells, &c., and to have sufficient instructions con- 

 veyed to persons who wUl undertake the researches required at selected points 

 in various parts of the country. 



