XXXVI REPORT—1843. 
Kew Observatory :—Mr. Cripps, who had charge of the Observatory under 
the department of Woods and Forests, remains in the apartments he pre- 
viously occupied, but without receiving a salary, undertaking to keep the 
house aired and the lower part clean and in good order, the Association being 
at the expense of cleansing materials, and of an allowance of fuel and can- 
dles, not exceeding in value £15 per annum. 
Mr. Galloway has been engaged at a salary of £27 7s. 6d. per annum, with 
apartments in the Observatory, fuel and light, to take charge of the rooms 
above the basement story, and of the property of the Association placed 
therein ; to render general assistance to Members of the Association who 
may be prosecuting researches at the Observatory ; and to obey to the best 
of his ability whatever instructions he may receive from time to time from 
the Members of the Council or other authorised persons. 
The Council have ordered a few necessary repairs to be made, including 
arrangements for the apartments of Mr. Galloway, and for a spare sleeping 
room in case the prosecution of any scientific researches at the Observatory 
should render it desirable forany Member of the Association to pass anight there. 
The necessary instruments were purchased, and a regular Meteorological 
Register was commenced by Mr. Galloway (under the superintendence of 
Professor Wheatstone) in November last. 
For these various purposes the sum of £133 4s. 7d. has been expended in 
the present year out of the £200 placed at the disposal of the Council. 
A Report will be presented to the Association by Professor Wheatstone, 
descriptive of the Seli-registering Meteorological Apparatus, for which a 
special grant of £50 was made to him at Manchester, and which has been 
completed and placed in the Observatory. 
At the close of the first year, therefore, the Council have to report the 
establishment of the following registries, viz— 
1. An ordinary meteorological record with standard instruments. 
2. A meteorological record with self-registering instruments on a new 
construction. 
3. A record of the electrical state of the atmosphere. 
It is proposed to add to these a registry of the comparative amount of rain 
at different heights above the surface, and of the temperature at different 
depths beneath the surface, for both which purposes the locality appears 
particularly well-suited: statements of the methods proposed to be employed, 
and applications for the necessary grants will be brought forward in the 
course of the present meeting by Mr. Phillips and Professor Wheatstone. 
The Council hope that the General Committee will be satisfied with the 
progress which has been made during the past year, towards placing the 
Kew Observatory in a state creditable to the Association, and advantageous 
to science ; and that, mindful of the circumstances under which the building 
was obtained, and of the various problems in experimental philosophy to whose 
solution it may be rendered subservient, they will regard favourably the 
desire of the Council to embrace every suitable occasion of augmenting and 
perpetuating its usefulness. 
4. The Council have added the names of M. Bessel of Kénigsberg, M. 
Jacobi of Kénigsberg, Dr. Adolphe Erman of Berlin, M. Paul Frisiani, Astro- 
nomer at Milan, and Professor Braschman of Moscow, to the list of Corre- 
sponding Members of the British Association. 
5. It has been notified to the Council that an invitation will be presented 
to the British Association in the course of the present meeting, to hold the 
Meeting in the year 1844 at York. 
