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has received the sanction of the Hon. Court of Directors of the East India 
Company, and is now in progress. Also in the present summer, Lieut. Moore, 
_of the Royal Navy, proceeded under the direction of the Lords of the Ad- 
_ miralty to Hudson’s Bay, in one of the vessels belonging to the Hudson’s Bay 
_ Company, for the purpose of connecting the observations of the Canadian 
Survey with those which the Expedition under Sir John Franklin is making 
_ in the seas to the north of the American Continent. 
__ In accordance with the recommendation concerning the co-operation of 
_ foreign magnetical and meteorological observatories, communications were 
4 » made, on the application of the President, by the Earl of Aberdeen, Her Ma- 
_ jesty’s principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to the governments of 
_ Russia, Austria, Prussia, Belgium, Sweden and Spain, from all of whom very 
favourable replies have been received. 
_ 2. The resolution passed by the General Committee, to the effect ‘ that 
it is highly desirable to encourage, by specific pecuniary reward, the im- 
_ provement of self-recording magnetical and meteorological apparatus, and 
that the Presidents of the Royal Society and of the British Association be 
requested to solicit the favourable consideration of Her Majesty’s Govern- 
ment to this subject,” has been brought under the notice of Government, 
and arrangements have been made to carry the recommendation into effect. 
_ Whilst en this subject the Council has also much pleasure in noticing that 
the President and Council of the Royal Society have granted £50 from the 
Wollaston Donation Fund to assist in the construction of apparatus devised 
by Mr. Ronalds for the self-registry of magnetical and meteorological instru- 
ments; which apparatus is in progress of completion at the Observatory of 
the British Association at Kew. The Council are persuaded that the Gene- 
ral Committee will view with satisfaction this co-operation of the Royal So- 
ciety and British Association for objects common to both, and for which the 
Observatory at Kew furnishes a very convenient locality. 
3. The General Committee at Cambridge having passed a resolution, 
“That it be referred to the Council to take into consideration, before the 
next Meeting of the Association, the expediency of discontinuing the Kew 
Berryatory, ’"—the Council appointed a Committee, consisting of the Presi- 
_ dent (Sir John Herschel), the Dean of Ely, the Astronomer Royal, Professors 
RGicaham and Wheatstone, and Lieut.-Colonel Sabine, to collect information 
Bon the scientific purposes which the Kew Observatory has served, and on its 
general usefulness to science and to the Association; from whom they re- 
ceived the following report :— 
__ * Kew Observatory, May 7, 1846. Present,—Sir J. F. W. Herschel, Bart., 
the Astronomer Royal, Professors Graham and Wheatstone, and Lieut.- 
_ Colonel Sabine. . 
* After an attentive examination of the present state of the establishment, 
‘and of other matters connected therewith, the following resolutions were 
“unanimously adopted, viz.— 
“ That it be recommended to the General Committee that the establish-. 
ment at Kew, the occupancy of which has been granted by Her Majesty 
to the British Association, be maintained in its present state of effi- 
ciency :— 
“1. Because it affords, at a very inconsiderable expense, a local 
habitation to the Association; and a convenient depository for 
its books, manuscripts and apparatus. 
**2. Because it has afforded to Members of the Association the means 
’ magnetic survey of the Indian Seas by Lieut. Elliot, of the Madras Engineers, 
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