RESEARCHES IN SCIENCE. XXVii 
mometer on Mr. Osler’s construction at Inverness, to connect 
these Observations with others already established there. 
The Report to be presented at the next meeting of the As- 
sociation. 
That a Committee, consisting of Major Sabine and Sir J. 
Herschel, be requested to provide two Actinometers, for Ob- 
servations on the intensity of Solar Radiation, to be made by 
Professor Agassiz, at considerable heights in the Alps, and that 
the sum of 10/. be placed at the disposal of the Committee for 
the purpose. 
The Report to be presented at the next meeting of the As- 
sociation. 
That the sum of 75/. be placed at the disposal of Sir D. 
Brewster, for the purpose of an Inquiry into the action of 
Gaseous and other Media upon the Solar Spectrum. 
The Report to be presented at the next meeting of the As- 
sociation. 
That the Committee already appointed to superintend the 
reduction of Lacaille’s Stars, consisting of Sir J. Herschel, 
the Astronomer Royal, and Mr. Henderson, be re-appointed ; 
and that the sum of 184J. 5s. (the balance of former grant) be 
placed at the disposal of the Committee for the purpose. 
The Report to be presented at the next meeting of the As- 
sociation. 
That a sum not exceeding 20/. be placed at the disposal of 
Mr. Snow Harris, for repairing and observing Whewell’s and 
Osler’s Anemometers. 
That a sum of 351. be placed at the disposal of Mr. Snow 
Harris, for defraying the expenses of the Hourly Register of 
the Barometer and Thermometer at Plymouth. 
That the sum of 20/. be placed at the disposal of Professor 
Forbes, for Tabulating Experiments on Subterranean Tem- 
perature. 
That a Committee, consisting of Sir J. Herschel, Professor 
Whewell, Dr. Peacock, Professor Lloyd, and Major Sabine, be 
appointed for conducting the co-operation of this Association 
in the system of simultaneous Magnetical and Meteorological 
Observations, and that a sum of 50/. be placed at their dis- 
posal. 
That a Committee, consisting of Major Sabine, Dr. R. Brown, 
