XxXlv REPORT—1852. 
CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. 

Professor Agassiz, Cambridge, Massa- | Dr. Langberg, Christiania. | 
chusetts. M. Leverrier, Paris. 4 
M. Arago, Paris. Baron de Selys-Longchamps, Liége. — - 3 
M. Babinet, Paris. Dr. Lamont, Munich. | 
Dr. A. D. Bache, Philadelphia. Baron von Liebig, Munich. p| 
Professor H. von Boguslawski, Breslau. | Professor Gustav Magnus, Berlin. | 
Mr. P. G. Bond, Cambridge, U.S. | Professor Matteucci, Pisa. 
Monsieur Boutigny (d’Evreux), Paris. Professor von Middendorff, St. Peters- 
Professor Braschmann, Moscow. | burg. ; 
Chevalier Bunsen (Prussian Embassy), | Professor Nilsson, Sweden. | 
London. | Dr. N. Nordengsciold, Finland. 
Prince Charles Buonaparte, Paris. | Chevalier Plana, Turin. 
M. De la Rive, Geneva. M. Quetelet, Brussels. 
Professor Dove, Berlin. | Professor Pliicker, Bonn. 
M. Dufrenoy, Paris. | M. Constant Prevost, Paris. 
Professor Dumas, Paris. Professor C. Ritter, Berlin. 
Dr. J. Milne-Edwards, Paris. | 

Professor H. D. Rogers, Philadelphia, 
Professor W. B. Rogers, Virginia. 
Professor H. Rose, Berlin. 
Professor Ehrenberg, Berlin. 
Dr. Eisenlohr, Carlsruhe. 
Professor Encke, Berlin. | Baron Senftenberg, Bohemia. 
Dr. A. Erman, Berlin. | Dr. Sihestrom, Stockholm. 
Professor Esmark, Christiania. | M. Struvé, St. Petersburg. 
Professor G. Forechhammer, Copenhagen. | Dr. Svanberg, Stockholm. 
M. Frisiani, Milan. | Dr. Van der Hoeven, Leyden. 
Professor Asa Gray, Cambridge, U.S. | Baron Sartorius von Waltershausen, 
Professor Henry, Washington, U.S. Gotha. 
Baron Alexander von Humboldt, Berlin. | M. Pierre Tchihatchef, (Russian Em- 
M. Jacobi, St. Petersburg. bassy), Paris. 
Professor Kreil, Prague. Professor Wartmann, Lausanne. ; 
M. Kupffer, St. Petersburg. 

4 
REPORT ON THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE COUNCIL IN 1851-52, AS PRESENTED 
TO THE GENERAL CoMMITTEE AT BELFrast, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 1, 
1852. 
“J, With reference to the subjects referred to the Council by the General 
Committee at Ipswich, the Council have to report as follows :— 
(a) The Council having requested the President, Mr. Airy, to use his best 
endeavours to obtain from Government a grant towards the publication of Mr. 
Huxley’s Zoological and Anatomical Researches, made during the voyage of 
H.M.S. ‘ Rattlesnake,’ have been informed by Mr. Airy that the Govern- 
ment have expressed their inability to make a grant for that purpose in the 
present year: the Council recommend that the application should be re- 
eated. 
‘ (6) The Council requested the President, Mr. Airy, to communicate to 
Her Majesty’s Government, and to the Court of Directors of the East India 
Company, the recommendation approved by the General Committee, that 
the necessary aid should be given for the speedy publication of the Bo- 
tanical Researches of Drs. Hooker and Thomson, Captain Strachey and Mr. 
Winterbottom, so as to constitute, by combination with former publications, 
a general Indian Flora. The Council have been informed by Mr. Airy, first, 
that Dr. Hooker is engaged under an instruction from Government, in 
arranging his materials for publication, in three volumes, the first of which 
will not be ready before November 1852; and that no immediate application 

