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REPORT — 1856. 



CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. 



Professor Agassiz, Cambridge, Massa- 

 chusetts. 

 M. Babinet, Paris. 

 Dr. A. D. Bache, Washington. 

 Prince Charles Bonaparte, Paris. 

 Mr. P. G. Bond, Cambridge, U.S. 

 M. Boutigny (d'Evreux). 

 Professor Braschmann, Moscow. 

 Chevalier Bunsen, Heidelberg. 

 Dr. Ferdinand Cohn, Breslau. 

 M. De la Rive, Geneva. 



Professor Dove, Berlin. 



Professor Dumas, Paris. 



Dr. J. Milne-Edwards, Paris. 



Professor Ehrenberg, Berlin. 



Dr. Eisenlohr, Carlsruhe. 



Professor Encke, Berlin. 



Dr. A. Erman, Berlin. 



Professor Esmark, Christiania. 



Professor G. Forchhammer, Copenhagen. 



M. Leon Foucault, Paris. 



Prof. E. Fremy, Paris. 



M. Frisiani, Milan. , 



Professor Asa Gray, Cambridge, U.S. 



Professor Henry, Washington, U.S. 



Baron Alexander von Humboldt, Berlin. 



M. Jacobi, St. Petersburg. 



Prof. A. Kblliker, Wurzburg. 



Prof. De Koninck, Liege. 



Professor Kreil, Vienna. 



Dr. A. Kupifer, St. Petersburg. 



Dr. Lament, Munich. 



Prof. F. Lanza, Spoleto. 



M. Le Verrier, Paris. 



Baron von Liebig, Munich. 



Baron de Selys-Longchamps, Liege. 



Professor Gustav Magnus, Berlin. 



Professor Matteucci, Pisa. 



Professor von MiddendorfF, St. Petersburg. 



M. I'Abbe Moigno, Paris. 



M, Morren, Liege. 



Professor Nilsson, Sweden. 



Dr. N. Nordengsciold, Finland. 



M. E. Peligot, Paris. 



Chevalier Plana, Turin, 



Professor PUicker, Bonn. 



M. Constant Prevost, Paris. 



M. Quetelet, Brussels. 



Prof. Retzius, Stockholm. 



Professor C. Ritter, Berlin. 



Professor H. D. Rogers, Boston, U.S. 



Professor W. B. Rogers, Boston, U.S. 



Professor H. Rose, Berlin. 



Baron Senftenberg, Bohemia. 



Dr. Siljestrom, Stockholm. 



M. Struve, Pvlkowa. 



Dr. Svanberg, Stockholm. 



M. Pierre Tchihatchef. 



Dr. Van der Hoeven, Leyden. 



Baron Sartorius von Waltershausen, 



Gottingen. 

 Professor Wartmann, Geneva, 



Report of the Council of the British Association as presented 

 TO THE General Committee at Cheltenham, August 6th, 1856. 



a. The Council have the satisfaction of reporting the continued efficiency 

 and progress toward higher usefulness of the Observatory at Kew, which, 

 while it fulfils the original object of its foundation, and readily takes up 

 original research, is now a point of reference for Standard Instruments in 

 meteorology, and auxiliary to the national service. 



b. In conducting this establishment, the Council have in previous years 

 had the great benefit of the cooperation of the Royal Society, and the Re- 

 port of the Committee of the Observatory, which is now laid on the table, 

 will show that this highly valued cooperation is continued. The Members 

 will learn from the Report the final result of the Correspondence between 

 the Committee of the Observatory and the Authorities of the Board of 

 Public Works, concerning the repairs of the building and the laying-on of 

 gas. The disadvantages which might have resulted from the unexpected 

 issue of this correspondence have been removed by the prompt liberality of 

 the Council of the Royal Society, who have advanced the necessary funds 

 for immediately supplying the Observatory with gas. 



c. The Council suggest to tiie General Committee to tender its cordial 

 thanks to the Royal Society for the effective assistance thus given to an In- 

 stitution in which both the Royal Society and the British Association recog- 

 nize a powerful instrument of philosophical research. 



