XXX REPORT—1857. 
contained in the various Scientific Transactions and Journals of all countries. 
The Report of this Committee was made at the Cheltenham Meeting, and 
was communicated by direction of the Council to the President and Council 
of the Royal Society, whose cooperation in this important undertaking was 
requested. The original Committee appointed by the Association, with the 
addition of two Members named by the Council of the Royal Society, were 
requested to give the subject a second and more full consideration. Their 
Report was presented to the Council of the Royal Society in June last, and 
was ordered to be printed and 250 copies to be sent to the British Association, 
for distribution amongst the Members of the General Committee at the Dublin 
Meeting, with a view to obtain the thorough concurrence and cooperation of 
the two Societies in the plan which shall be ultimately adopted for carrying 
out a work which promises to be of very considerable advantage to the cul- 
tivators of science in all countries. 
Iil. The Council congratulate the General Committee on the publication 
which has taken place in the current year of the Meteorological Observations 
made by the Officers of the Irish Trigonometrical Survey at Mountjoy 
Barracks, near Dublin. It will be remembered that at the Southampton 
Meeting of the Association in the year 1846, a Committee was appointed 
to communicate with the Master-General of the Ordnance relative to the 
publication of these valuable observations, and that in January 1847, the 
Marquis of Anglesey, then holding the office of Master-General of the 
Ordnance, expressed to the Committee his readiness to meet the wishes of 
the British Association if the Treasury could be induced to grant the neces- 
sary funds, for which the Ordnance had not and could not make any pro- 
vision. In consequence of this communication, the Council appointed a 
deputation to solicit from the Treasury that a grant for the purpose should 
be placed at the disposal of the Master-General, and were informed in 
reply, through the Secretary of the Ordnance, under date May 31, 1847, 
that the Treasury would be prepared to include the expense of the publica- 
tion in the estimate to be laid before Parliament in 1848. The Council were 
also favoured with a letter from the Marquis of Anglesey, dated July 10, 
1848, stating that “he had directed the publication of the Mountjoy Ob- 
servations to be carried into effect with as little delay as possible.” The 
publication having now taken place, it has appeared to the Council de- 
sirable that the part taken by the British Association in recommending and 
in procuring the funds for this valuable contribution to the Meteorology 
of the British Islands should be thus fully stated; because it has happened 
(no doubt accidentally) that no notice of any of these circumstances appears 
in the Preface or in the Introduction of the publication itself, 
[V. The Council have been informed that circumstances will deprive the 
Dublin Meeting of the attendance of Edward J. Cooper, Esq., who was 
named as one of the Vice-Presidents for the Meeting ; and with the con- 
currence of the Local Committee in Dublin, they recommend to the General 
Committee that the name of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland should be sub- 
stituted for that of Mr. Cooper. 
V. The Council have received letters of invitation to the Association to 
hold its Meeting in 1858 in Manchester, from— 
The General Purposes’ Committee of the City Council. 
The Board of Directors of the Athenzeum, 
The Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester. 
The Botanical and Horticultural Society. 
The Natural History Society. 
The Photographic Society. 
