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half. Of these observatories, that at Dublin, placed under the 
immediate superintendence of Professor Lloyd, has been 
equipped and provided for by the praiseworthy liberality and 
public spirit of the University of that metropolis. Those at 
Toronto, the Cape of Good Hope, St. Helena and Van Die- 
men’s Land, as also the two itinerant observatories of the 
Antarctic expedition, by the British Government; those of 
Madras, Simla, Singapore and Bombay, by the Honourable 
East India Company; to which are to be added ten stations in 
Kuropean and Asiatic Russia, and one at Pekin, established 
by Russia; two by Austria at Prague and Milan; two by the 
Universities of Philadelphia and Cambridge in the United 
States ; one by the French Government at Algiers; one by the 
Prussian at Breslau; one by the Bavarian at Munich; one by 
the Spanish at Cadiz; one by the Belgian at Brussels; one by 
the Pacha of Egypt at Cairo; one by the Rajah of Travan- 
core at Trevandrum in India; and one by the King of Oude 
at Lucknow. 
In addition to this list, it has recently also been determined 
by the British Government (at the instance of the Royal So- 
ciety) to provide for the performance of a series of correspond- 
ing observations, both magnetic and meteorological, at the 
Royal Observatory at Greenwich, under the able superintend- 
ence of the Astronomer Royal. In Norway, negotiations, in 
which M. Hansteen has taken an especial interest, have been 
for some time carrying on for establishing an observatory of a 
similar description at Hammerfest. A great number of mag- 
netic and other instruments available for this service, it ap- 
pears, have been left at Kaafiord by M. Gaymard, acting for 
the “Commission Scientifique du Nord,” under the directions 
of the French Ministry of the Marine, all which instruments, 
through the efficient intervention of M. Arago, it is under- 
stood, will be placed at the disposal of the observer or observers 
who may be appointed to conduct the observations. To com- 
plete the establishment, however, certain instruments, as well 
as registry-books, &c. are still requisite. ‘The Council of the 
Royal Society have undertaken to supply these from the Wol- 
laston Donation Fund. 
As regards the magnetic observatory at Breslau, under the 
direction of M. Boguslawski, your Committee have to report, 
that in order to secure the establishment of that station, and 
to place it on an equal footing with the rest, certain instru- 
ments, &c. required to be provided, for which no funds existed, 
or could be made available on the spot, viz. a bifilar and a 
vertical-force magnetometer, with the requisite reading-tele- 
