ON MAGNETICAL AND METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 67 
From the Marquis of Northampton, President of the Royal Society, to 
the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart. 
London, July 3, 1845. 
Dear S1r,—The Council of the Royal Society having had before them 
the resolutions of the Magnetic Conference at Cambridge, to which, as a 
member of that Conference, I drew their attention, entirely concur in the 
recommendations that they contain, and request the favourable consideration 
of Her Majesty's Government to the subject, to which they attach the highest 
importance. 
The Council of the Royal Society having named the same gentlemen to 
draw up an accompanying explanatory report as the British Association, it is 
of course the report of the Royal Society. 
I am, dear Sir, 
Yours truly, 
(Signed) NorTHAMPTON. 
From Sir J. Herschel, Bart., President of the British Association, to the 
Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart. 
London, July 3, 1845. 
Srr,—I have the honour to forward for your perusal the accompanying 
resolutions of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, as- 
sembled at Cambridge on the 25th ult., and respectfully to request your favour- 
able consideration of them on the part of Her Majesty’s Government, and 
more particularly of the Ist, grd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, and 
14th, in which the aid and countenance of Government are solicited in favour 
of the continuance of the magnetic and meteorological operations now in 
progress, and which terminates on the 31st of December 1845. 
Accompanying this letter, 1 have moreover the honour to enclose the re- 
port alluded to in resolution 14th, explanatory of the proceedings which have 
led to this application, and which I trust will place their whole bearing in a 
distinct and satisfactory light. 
I have the honour to be, Sir, 
Very respectfully, your obedient and humble Servant, 
(Signed) J. F. W. HerscHet, 
President of the British Association. 
Resolutions of the Magnetic Conference, adopted by the General Committee of 
the British Association, June 25th, 1845. 
1. That it be recommended that the Magnetic Observatory at Greenwich 
e permanently continued upon the most extensive and efficient scale that the 
interests of the sciences of Magnetism and Meteorology may require. 
_ 2. That it be earnestly recommended to the Proyost and Fellows of Trinity 
_ College, Dublin, to continue the magnetical and meteorological obseryations 
at the Observatory instituted by that University. An ae 
__ 3. That it be recommended to continue the Observatory at Toronto upon 
its present footing until the 3lst of December 1848, unless in the mean 
_ time arrangements can be made for its permanent establishment. 
_ 4. That it be recommended to continue the Observatory at Van Diemen’s 
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