XXXIV REPORT—1843. 
Report OF THE CouNcIL TO THE GENERAL CoMMITTEE. 
1. The Local Secretaries for the Cork Meeting having stated to the 
Council the expediency of appointing an additional resident Local Secretary 
to assist in the arrangements for that meeting, and having named William 
Clear, Esq. of Cork as a very desirable person to fill the office, the Council 
appointed Mr. Clear one of the Local Secretaries for the Cork Meeting. 
2. The following Resolution, passed at a Meeting of the General Com- 
mittee held at Manchester on the 29th of June 1842, was communicated to 
the Council by the General Secretaries, viz.i— 
“ That the President and Officers of the British Association, with the 
assistance of the Marquis of Northampton, the Dean of Ely, Sir John 
Herschel, and Francis Baily, Esq., be a Committee to make application 
to Government to undertake the publication of the Catalogue of Stars 
in the Histoire Céleste of Lalande and of Lacaille’s Catalogue of the 
Stars in the Southern Hemisphere, which have been reduced and pre- 
pared for publication at the expense of the British Association; and 
that the President and Council of the Royal Society be requested to 
support the application. The Dean of Ely to be the Convener of this 
Committee.” 
A Report in conformity with this Resolution,—requesting the co-operation 
of the Royal Society in an application to Government to defray the expenses 
of the publication of these Catalogues,—having been prepared by the Com- 
mittee appointed for that purpose, was approved by the Council; and the Dean 
of Ely, Chairman of the Committee, being also a Member of the Council of 
the Royal Society, was requested to present the same to the President and 
Council of the Royal Society in the name of the British Association. 
The President and Council of the Royal Society having declined to accede 
to this request, the following application to Government from the British 
Association alone was approved by the Council and transmitted by the 
General Secretaries to Sir Robert Peel. 
(Letter No. 1.) 
“2 Duke Street, Adelphi, April 6, 1843. 
“ Sir,—We beg leave most respectfully, on behalf of the British Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science, to solicit the aid of Her Majesty’s Go- 
vernment in the publication of the following works :— 
“ The first is the Catalogue of the Stars in the Histoire Céleste of Lalande 
exceeding 47,000 in number, which have been reduced under the superin- 
tendence of Mr. Francis Baily. 
“The second is the Catalogue of Lacaille’s Southern Stars, exceeding 
10,000 in number, which have been reduced, catalogued, and prepared for the 
press under the superintendence of Professor Henderson, the Astronomer 
Royal of Scotland. 
“ The expenses already incurred in these reductions exceeding £1400, have 
been entirely defrayed from the funds of the British Association, at whose 
request they were undertaken. The further charge required for printing and 
publishing these Catalogues would not exceed £1000. 
“The British Association at their last Meeting at Manchester considered 
their funds inadequate to meet this charge, being already pledged to a very 
large amount for the publication of the extended Catalogue of the Astrono- 
mical Society, and for various important scientific researches and experiments ; 
and they consequently requested the General Secretaries, the Dean of Ely, 
Sir John F. W. Herschel, Bart., the Astronomer Royal, and Mr. Francis 
Baily, to apply to Her Majesty’s Government for a grant of the requisite funds. 
