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sums have been appropriated without any prospect or intention of remune- 
ration to the Association; and that no part of this money is ever applied to 
defray the personal expenses, or to compensate for the loss of time and trouble 
of those members of the Association by whom these researches or experiments 
are undertaken, and who have all rendered their services gratuitously. 
“The Committee trust that the preceding statement will be sufficient to 
satisfy the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury that the funds of 
the Association have been expended, and nearly exhausted, upon objects of 
the highest national and scientific importance, and that the present application 
to their Lordships for assistance has not been made on slight or inefficient 
grounds. 
“T beg to add that, in making this application, the British Association 
have no intention or wish to derive any benefit or advantage from the print- 
ing of the two works in question. They desire to place the whole at the dis- 
posal of the Government, to be gratuitously distributed amongst scientific 
persons, in the same way as the Greenwich Observations are now disposed of, 
or in such other manner as the Government may direct; and their sole wish 
is that the two important works, on which so much expense and time and 
labour have been already expended, should not be eventually lost to the 
public through the want of some further support. 
“TJ have the honour to be, &c., 
“C. B. Trevelyan, Esq.” “ EDWARD SABINE.” 
(Letter No. 4.) 
“‘ Treasury Chambers, Ist August, 1843. 
“ GENTLEMEN.—The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury 
have had under their consideration your letter of the 10th June last, in which 
you request that a sum not exceeding £1000 may be advanced by Her Ma- 
jesty’s Government towards defraying the expense of printing the copies of 
the reduced Catalogue of Stars of Lalande and Lacaille, prepared under the 
superintendence of Mr. F. Baily and Professor Henderson ; and I am directed 
by their Lordships to acquaint you that the necessary directions will be given 
for issuing £1000 for the completion of the works in question. I am at the 
same time to state, that the compliance with this application must not be 
considered as authorising the expectation of any pecuniary assistance in cases 
not in the first instance submitted to and approved by My Lords. 
“T am, Gentlemen, 
“ Your obedient Servant, 
“To the British Association (Signed) “C. E. TREVELYAN.” 
Sor the Advancement of Science, 
2 Duke Street, Adelphi.” 
The Council congratulate the General Committee on the ready disposition 
which Her Majesty's Government has shown to receive favourably and to 
comply with this recommendation made by the British Association on the 
behalf of science. 
3. The following Resolution of the General Committee at Manchester 
was communicated to the Council by the General Secretaries :— 
“ That £200 be placed at the disposal of the Council for the purpose 
of upholding the establishment in the Kew Observatory. That all 
instruments, papers, and other property of the Association be placed in 
_the Kew Observatory when not employed in carrying on scientific 
inquiries for the Association, and that the Secretaries be instructed to 
adopt the necessary measures for carrying this resolution into effect.” 
The Council have made the following arrangements for the care of the 
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