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PROVISIONAL REPORTS, AND NOTICES OF PROGRESS 
IN SPECIAL RESEARCHES ENTRUSTED TO COMMIT- 
TEES AND INDIVIDUALS. 
MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS. 
Statement by G. B. Arry, Esq., Astron. Royal, relating to 
the progress of the Reductions of the Greenwich Lunar 
and Planetary Observations, undertaken at the recommenda- 
tion of the British Association; and to the state of the 
Funds appropriated to these works. 
A RESOLUTION of the General Committee of the British Asso- 
ciation, recommending to the Government the reduction of all 
the observations of the Planets made at Greenwich from the 
time of Bradley, was passed at Cambridge on June 28, 1833, 
and a deputation was appointed to wait on Lord Althorp, in 
order to present this recommendation, and to request that the 
sum of 5002. should be placed in my hands for these reductions. 
The sum named was fixed on wholly at random, and without 
any sort of accurate estimate, of which the operations did not 
seem to admit. 
Lord Althorp’s answer assenting to the grant was dated 
July 25, 1833. It was understood verbally from his Lordship’s 
private secretary (Mr. Drummond), that more money would be 
granted if required. 
The whole sum of 5002. has been advanced to me by the fol- 
lowing payments. 
1836—Jan. 8 : 3 .£122 17 9 
1887—May 27. , MD eB B 
1838—Feb. 24 . : 4 ADC doe 
Total . . £500 0 0 
The last payment is subsequent to the later arrangement 
cee to lunar reductions, of which I now proceed to 
speak. 
In the Meeting of the Association at Liverpool in 1837, the 
General Committee recommended that the Observations of the 
Moon should be reduced, and appointed a deputation to wait 
on Mr. Spring Rice, and to convey this recommendation. The 
