
RESEARCHES IN SCIENCE. XXxiil 
Involving Application to Government or Public Institutions. 
That in order to meet the growing wants of science, and remedy, in some 
degree, the inconvenience caused to its cultivators by the dissociated, incom- 
plete, and discontinuous publication of scientific researches, it is expedient 
that the British Association, which, by its constitution, includes representa- 
tives of the various scientific institutions of the empire, should propose such 
general views on the subject as may be suggested by the experience of its 
members. 
That a Committee be formed for the purpose of considering of a plan by 
which the Transactions of different Scientific Societies may become part of 
one arranged system, and the records of facts and phenomena be rendered 
more complete, more continuous, and more convenient than at present. 
That it be an instruction to this Committee to place itself in communica- 
cation with the Council of the Royal Society, and the Councils of other Sci- 
entific Societies which receive scientific communications at regular meetings. 
That the Committee consist of Prof. W. Thomson, Prof. Andrews, Lec- 
nard Horner, Esq., Prof. Owen, Sir R. I. Murchison, Col. Sykes, W. J. Ran- 
kine, Esq., J. C. Adams, Esq., Dr. Lloyd, Prof. Wilson, Dr. Robinson, Prof. 
Bell, Prof. Graham, W. R. Grove, Esq., Sir D. Brewster, and ex officio the 
General Officers, with power to add to their number. 
That it is important to have a Quarterly Record of British and Foreign 
scientific publications and discoveries, and that the consideration of the prac- 
ticability of obtaining this be referred to the same Committee. 
That a representation be made to the Royal Society of the importance at- 
tached by M. Otto Struvé to the determination of the constant of “Irradiation” 
for the Huyghenian object-glass of 123 feet radius. 
That it is expedient to proceed without delay with the establishment in 
the Southern Hemisphere of a Telescope not inferior in power to a three 
feet reflector ; and that the President, with the assistance of the following 
gentlemen, viz. Lord Rosse, Dr. Robinson, Lord Wrottesley, J. C. Adams, 
Esq., the Astronomer Royal, J. Nasmyth, Esq., W. Lassell, Esq., Sir D. 
Brewster, and E. J. Cooper, Esq., be requested to take such steps as they 
shall deem most desirable to carry out the preceding Resolution. 
That the publication of the reduction upon a scale of one inch to the mile. 
of the Townland Survey of Ireland, ordered to be made in connection with 
the Geological Survey by the Ordnance, and for which a vote was taken for 
1852-53, upon the Estimates of that department, be recommended to the 
Government to be accelerated. 
That the Council of the British Association be requested to continue their 
efforts to obtain the assistance of the Government for the publication of Mr. 
Huxley’s researches. 
That, with the view of obtaining an accurate knowledge of the countries 
on and near the Eastern coast of Africa, from the Red Sea to 10° S. lat., the 
very important products of which have been enumerated by the late Sir 
Charles Malcolm and Mr. D. Cooley, the British Association do call the 
attention of the Court of Directors‘ of the Honourable the East India Com- 
pany, to the desirableness of sending an expedition thoroughly to explore 
that region, as recommended by the Royal Geographical Society of Londox. 
The deputation to consist of the President of the British Association, and 
the President and Vice-Presidents of the Royal Geographical Society. 
That most important meteorological data are attainable by balloon ascents ; 
and that the Council be requested to solicit the cooperation of the Royai 
Society in this investigation. 
