XXVIll 
REPORT—1857. 
CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. 
Professor Agassiz, Cambridge, Massa- 
chusetts. 
M. Babinet, Paris. 
Dr. A. D. Bache, Washington. 
Professor Balzani, Kazan. 
Barth, Dr. 
Mr. P. G. Bond, Cambridge, U.S. 
M. Boutigny (d’Evreux). 
Professor Braschmann, Moscow. 
Chevalier Bunsen, Heidelberg. 
Dr. Ferdinand Cohn, Breslau. 
M. Antoine d’Abbadie. 
M. De la Rive, Geneva. 
Professor Dove, Berlin. 
Professor Dumas, Paris. 
Dr. J. Milne-Edwards, Paris. 
Professor Ehrenberg, Berlin. 
Dr. Eisenlohr, Carlsruhe. 
Professor Encke, Berlin. 
Dr. A. Erman, Berlin. 
Professor Esmark, Christiania. 
Professor G. Forchhammer, Copenhagen. 
M. Léon Foucault, Paris. 
Prof. E. Fremy, Paris. 
M. Frisiani, Milan. 
Professor Asa Gray, Cambridge, U.S. 
Professor Henry, Washington, U.S. 
Baron Alexander von Humboldt, Berlin. 
M. Jacobi, St. Petersburg. 
Prof. A. Kolliker, Wurzburg. 
Prof. De Koninck, Liege. 
Professor Kreil, Vienna. 
Dr. A. Kupffer, St. Petersburg. 
Dr. Lamont, Munich. 
REporT OF THE COUNCIL OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION AS PRESENTED 
M. Le Verrier, Paris. 
Baron von Liebig, Munich. 
Baron de Sélys-Longchamps, Liége. 
Professor Loomis, New York. 
Professor Gustav Magnus, Berlin. 
Professor Matteucci, Pisa. 
Professor von Middendorff, St. Petersburg. 
M. l’Abbé Moigno, Paris. 
Professor M. Morren, Liége. 
Professor Nilsson, Sweden. 
Dr. N. Nordengsciold, Finland. 
M. E. Peligot, Paris. 
Viscenza Pisani, Florence. 
Gustave Plaar, Strasburg. 
Chevalier Plana, Turin. 
Professor Pliicker, Bonn. 
M. Constant Prévost, Paris. 
M. Quetelet, Brussels. 
Prof. Retzius, Stockholm. 
Professor C. Ritter, Berlin. 
Professor H. D. Rogers, Boston, U.S. 
Professor W. B. Rogers, Boston, U.S. 
Professor H. Rose, Berlin. 
Herman Schlagintweit, Berlin. 
Robert Schlagintweit, Berlin. 
Baron Senftenberg, Bohemia. 
Dr. Siljestrom, Stockholm. 
M. Struvé, Pulkowa. 
Dr. Svanberg, Stockholm. 
M. Pierre Tchihatchef. 
Dr. Van der Hoeven, Leyden. 
Baron Sartorius von Waltershausen, 
Gottingen. 
| Professor Wartmann, Geneva. 
Prof. F. Lanza, Spoleto. | 
TO THE GENERAL CoMMITTEE AT DuBLIN, AucusT 26TH, 1857. 
I. With reference to the subjects referred to the Council by the General 
Committee at Cheltenham, the Council have to report as follows :— 
a. The General Committee directed that copies of the two last Reports 
of the Parliamentary Committee should be transmitted to each Member 
of the General Committee, with a request that opinions might be expressed 
on the important subject, “Whether any measures could be adopted 
by the Government or Parliament that would improve the position of 
Science and its cultivators ;” and that such opinions should be forwarded 
for the consideration of the Council before the 20th of September, 1856. 
This direction having been complied with, and a considerable number of 
letters expressing the opinions of individual Members of the General Com- 
mittee having been received, the Council requested the Assistant-General 
Secretary to prepare a digest, and to make such an arrangement of the 
communications themselves as might best facilitate their full consideration 
at a Special Meeting of the Council in January, 1857. At this meeting, 
Lord Wrottesley, President of the Royal Society, being one of the Members 
a 
