424 REPORT—1840. 
deputation accordingly attended at the Exchequer in the winter 
of that year, and made the application, naming the sum of 
2000/. as necessary, but stating in the formal memorial that the 
expense might probably exceed 20007. And on December 26 
of the same year, in writing to Mr. Spring Rice on this matter, 
I recommended that the accounts for planetary reductions and 
lunar reductions should be incorporated, as in pursuing the 
work in the most advantageous way, it was wholly impossible 
to keep the operations separate. 
The Lords of the Treasury assented to this application, and 
directed that 600/. should be advanced per annum, till the 
20002. should be expended. 
In the applications made by me to the Lords of the Treasury 
on April 13, 1839, and April 18, 1840, I stated fully that the 
money last granted (for the lunar reductions) had been em- 
ployed in part on the planetary reductions. 
The advances made to me from the Treasury are the follow- 
ing :— 
1838—June 13 : ‘ . £600 0 0 
1839—May 31 : : +13 GO0,cO560 
1840—April 27... 4 . 600 0 O 
Total . . £1800 0 0 
Leaving still payable to me 200 
ie 0 0 
from the original grant s_ 
And on Sept. 4, 1840, I had in 563 0 0 
hand about : ‘ : 
I have, therefore, at my com- "63 0 0 
mand . t : ‘ : 
This sum may be expected to last a short time beyond the 
next meeting of the Association ; but it would not, in my opi- 
* nion, be prudent to defer proceedings for increasing the sum 
till that time. 
The state of the reductions is nearly as follows :— 
Planets. 
The transits and right ascensions of all the planets are nearly 
all completed in duplicate, compared, examined by differences, 
and in other ways. 
The polar distances are entirely reduced in duplicate, com- 
pared, examined, &c., for all the planets, except an inconsider- 
able part of the observations of Uranus (probably finished by 
