Xvi REPORT—1846. 
CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. 
Professor Agassiz, Neufchatel. M.Arago, Paris. Dr. A. D. Bache, Phi- 
ladelphia. Professor Berzelius, Stockholm. Professor H. von Boguslawski, 
Breslau. Monsieur Boutigny d’Evreux, Paris. Professor Braschmann, Mos- 
cow. M. Dela Rive,Geneva. Professor Dove, Berlin. Professor Dumas, 
Paris. Professor Ehrenberg, Berlin. Dr. Eisenlohr, Carlsruhe. Professor 
Encke, Berlin. Dr. A. Erman, Berlin. Professor Forchhammer, Copen- 
hagen. Professor Henry, Princeton, United States. Professor Kreil, Prague. 
M. Kupffer, St. Petersburg. Dr. Langberg, Christiania. Baron de Selys 
Longchamps, Liége. M. Frisiani, Milan. Baron Alexander von Humboldt, 
Berlin. M. Jacobi, St. Petersburg. Professor Jacobi, Kénigsberg. Dr. La- 
mont, Munich. Baron von Liebig, Giessen. Professor Link, Berlin. Profes- 
sor Matteucci, Pisa.. Professor Middendorff, St. Petersburg. Dr. Cirsted, 
Copenhagen. Chevalier Plana, Turin. M. Quetelet, Brussels. Professor 
C. Ritter, Berlin. Professor H. Rose, Berlin, Professor Schumacher, 
Altona. Baron Senftenberg, Bohemia. Dr. Svanberg, Stockholm. Baron 
Sartorius von Waltershausen, Gotha. Professor Wartmann, Lausanne. 
Revort or THE ProcEEDINGS oF THE CouNcIL IN 1845-46, PRESENTED TO THE 
GenERAL ComMiItTTecEe at SourHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 9, 1846. 
Report of the Council to the General Committee. 
1. The Council have the very satisfactory duty to perform, of reporting to 
the General Committee that the resolutions of the Magnetical and Meteoro- 
logical Conference, adopted by the General Committee at Cambridge, on 
the 25th of June 1845, were submitted to the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, 
Bart., by the President Sir John Herschel, Bart., accompanied by a commu- 
nication from the Marquis of Northampton, President of the Royal Society, 
conveying the concurrence of that body in the recommendations contained 
therein; that they received a very favourable consideration from Her Ma- 
jesty’s Government, and that the recommendations connected with the British 
observatories, both at home and in the Colonies, are in progress of being ° 
carried out. « The resolutions relating to the East indian observatories and 
surveys have met with an equally favourable reception from the Hon. Court 
of Directors er the East India Company, and the recommendations which they 
contained have been approved and sanctioned. In accordance with the re- 
solutions passed at Cambridge, therefore, the magnetic observatory at Green- 
wich is permanently continued upon the most extensive and efficient scale. 
The magnetical and meteorological observations are constituted a permanent 
branch of the duties of the astronomical observatories at the Cape of Good 
Hope, Bombay and Madras, and arrangements are in progress for making 
them also a permanent branch of the observations to be made at the Obser- 
vatory at Paramatta. The detachment of the Royal Artillery, by whom the 
duties at the Cape of Good Hope have been hitherto performed, has been 
relieved by a permanent increase in the civil strength of the Astronomical Ob- 
servatory at that station, and in like manner the officers of the Royal Navy, 
who now form the establishment of the observatory at Van Diemen Island, 
will be relieved as soon as the civil establishment at Paramatta is completed. 
The Ordnance Observatories at Toronto and St. Helena are continued until 
the close of 1848. 
With reference to the recommendations relating to magnetic surveys, a 
