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REPORT—1849. 
CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. 
Professor Agassiz, Cambridge, Mas- 
sachusetts. 
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, Paris. 
Professor Ehrenberg, Berlin. 
Dr. Eisenlohr, Carlsruhe. 
Professor Encke, Berlin. 
Dr. A. Erman, Berlin. 
Professor Esmark, Christiania. 
Professor G. Forchhammer, Copen- 
hagen. 
M. Frisiani, Milan. 
Professor Henry, Princeton, United 
States. 
Baron Alexander von Humboldt, 
Berlin. 
M. Jacobi, St. Petersburg. 
Professor Jacobi, Konigsberg. 
Professor Kreil, Prague. 
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 Nilsson, Sweden. 
Dr. Girsted, Copenhagen. 
Chevalier Plana, Turin. 
M. Quetelet, Brussels. 
Professor Pliicker, Bonn. 
Professor C. Ritter, Berlin. 
Professor H. D. Rogers, Philadelphia. 
Professor H. Rose, Berlin. 
Professor Schumacher, Altona. 
Baron Senftenberg, Bohemia. 
Dr. Siljestrom, Stockholm. 
M. Struvé of St. Petersburg. 
Dr. Svanberg, Stockholm. 
Dr. Van der Hoven, Leyden. 
Baron Sartorius von Waltershausen, 
Gotha. 
| Professor Wartmann, Lausanne. 
Report or THE ProcEEDINGS oF THE CouNcIL IN 1848-49, As PRESENTED 
to THE GENERAL ComMITTEE AT BirMINGHAM, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 
12, 1849. 
I. With reference to the subjects referred to the Council by the General 
Committee assembled at Swansea, the Council have to report— 
Ist. That they communicated the recommendation of the General Com- 
mittee, for the continuance of the Magnetical and Meteorological Observa- 
tory at Toronto to the 3lst of December, 1850, to Lord John Russell, 
through the President, the Marquis of Northampton. ‘They have the plea- 
sure of stating that the Observatory has been continued. 
2nd. Pursuant to the request of the General Committee, the Council have 
taken into consideration the expediency of inserting in the Rules of the 
British Association a paragraph to the effect that those gentlemen who have 
held the office of President of the Association should subsequently be ea- 
officio members of the Council; and the Council now recommend that a 
paragraph to that effect should be inserted in the Rules of the Association. 
3rd. The sum of 100/., placed by the General Committee at the disposal 
of the Council for the disbursements connected with the Kew Observatory, 
has sufficed, under Mr. Ronalds’s general superintendence, for the mainte- 
nance of the Observatory in the past year as a depository for the books and 
instruments belonging to the Association; and also for the preparation of 
the self-registering magnetical instruments, on Mr. Ronalds’s plan, for the 
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