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REPORT—1848. 
CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. 
Professor Agassiz, Neufchatel. 
M. Arago, Paris. 
Dr. A. D. Bache, Philadelphia. 
Professor H. von Boguslawski, Bres- 
lau. 
Monsieur Boutigny (d’Evreux), Paris. 
Professor Braschmann, Moscow. 
Chevalier Bunsen. 
Charles Buonaparte, Prince of Canino. 
M. De la Rive, Geneva. 
Professor Dove, Berlin. 
Professor Dumas, Paris. 
Dr. J. Milne-Edwards of Paris. 
Professor Ehrenberg, Berlin. 
Dr. Eisenlohr, Carlsruhe. 
Professor Encke, Berlin. 
Dr. A. Erman, Berlin. 
Professor Esmark, Christiania. 
Professor Forchhammer,Copenhagen. 
M. Kupffer, St. Petersburg. 
Dr. Langberg, Christiania. 
M. Leverrier, Paris. 
Baron de Selys-Longchamps, Liége. 
Dr. Lamont, Munich. 
Baron von Liebig, Giessen. 
Professor Link, Berlin. 
Professor Matteucci, Pisa. 
Professor von Middendorff, St. Pe- 
tersburg. 
Professor Nillson of Sweden. 
Dr. GErsted, Copenhagen. 
Chevalier Plana, Turin. 
M. Quetelet, Brussels. 
Herr Plucker, Bonn. 
Professor C. Ritter, Berlin. 
Professor H. D. Rogers, Philadelphia. 
Professor H. Rose, Berlin. 
Professor Schumacher, Altona. 
M. Frisiani, Milan. 
Professor Henry, Princeton, United 
Baron Senftenberg, Bohemia. 
Dr. Siljestrom, Stockholm. 
States. M. Struve of St. Petersburg. 
Baron Alexander von Humboldt, | Dr. Svanberg, Stockholm. 
Berlin. Dr. Van der Hoven, Leyden. 
M. Jacobi, St. Petersburg. 
Professor Jacobi, Konigsberg. 
Professor Kreil, Prague. 
Baron Sartorius von Waltershausen, 
Gotha. 
| Professor Wartmann, Lausanne. 
Report or THE ProceEDINGs oF THE Councit IN 1847-48, PRESENTED TO THE 
Generat ComMITT£EE AT SwansEA, WepNEsDAY, Aucust 9, 1848. 
Report of the Council to the General Committee. 
1. With reference to the subjects on which the Council was requested by 
the General Committee, assembled at Oxford, to make applications to Her 
Majesty’s Government and to the Court of Directors of the East India Com- 
pany, the Council has to report, that similar resolutions to those of the General 
Committee having been passed by the Council of the Royal Society, appli- 
cations in accordance with them were made by the Presidents of that Society 
and of the British Association, acting conjointly, and were favourably received. 
On the subject of the first resolution, the Council understand from Lerd 
Auckland’s reply, that the Board of Admiralty will appropriate a suitable 
vessel for the purpose of an investigation into the Phenomena of the Tides, 
as soon as the most advisable plan for her employment shall have been deter- 
mined upon, and proper instructions suggested. With respect to the second 
resolution, the Court of Directors of the East India Company have issued 
orders for carrying into regular and continued operation the tide observations 
on the coasts of Western India and Scinde ;—and with respect to the third 
resolution, the Court of Directors have placed the standard bar and scale of 
the Indian arc of the meridian at the disposal of M. Struveé, and have per- 
mitted him to take it with him to Russia, in order that it may be there com- 
