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REPORT — 1853. 



CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. 



Professor Agassiz, Cambridge, Massa- 

 chusetts. 

 M. Babinet, Paris. 

 Dr. A. D. Bache, Philadelp/iia. 

 Professor H. von Boguslawski, Breslau. 

 Mr. P. G. Bond, Cambridge, U.S. 

 M. Boutigny (d'Evreux), Paris. 

 Professor Braschmann, Moscotc. 

 Chevalier Bunsen, Heidelberg. 

 Prince Charles Bonaparte, Paris. 

 M. De la Rive, Geneva. 

 Professor Dove, Berlin. 

 M. Dufrenoy, Paris. 

 Professor Dumas, Paris. 

 Dr. J. Milne-Edwards, Paris. 

 Professor Ehrenberg, Berlin. 

 Dr. Eisenlohr, Carlsriihe. 

 Professor Encke, Berlin. 

 Dr. A. Erman, Berlin. 

 Professor Esmark, Christiania. 

 Professor G. Forchharamer, Copenhagen. 

 M. Frisian!, Milan. 

 Professor Asa Gray, Cambridge, U.S. 

 Professor Henry, Washington, U.S. 

 Baron Alexander von Humboldt, Berlin. 

 M. Jacobi, St. Petersburg. 

 Professor Kreil, Prague. 

 M. KupfFer, St. Petersburg. 



Dr. Langberg, Christiania. 

 M. Le Verrier, Paris. 

 Baron de Selys-Longchamps, Li^ge. 

 Dr. Lamont, Munich. 

 Baron von Liebig, Munich. 

 Professor Gustav Magnus, Bet-lin. 

 Professor Matteucci, Pisa. 

 Professor von Middendorff, St. Peters- 

 burg. 

 Professor Nilsson, Sweden. 

 Dr. N. Nordengsciold, Finland. 

 Chevalier Plana, Turin, 

 M. Quetelet, Brussels. 

 Professor Pliicker, Bonn. 

 M. Constant Prevost, Paris. 

 Professor C. Ritter, Berlin. 

 Professor H. D. Rogers, Philadelphia. 

 Professor W. B. Rogers, Virginia. 

 Professor H. Rose, Berlin. 

 Baron Senftenberg, Bohemia. 

 Dr. Siljestrom, Stockholm, 

 M. Struve, St. Petersburg. 

 Dr. Svanberg, Stockholm. 

 Dr. Van der Hoeven, Leyden. 

 Baron Sartorius von Waltershausen. 

 M. Pierre Tchihatchef. 

 IVofessor Wartmann, Lausanne. 



Report of the Proceedings of the Council in 18.52-53, a8 presented 



TO the General Committee at Hull, Wednesday, Sept.7th, 1853. 



" 1. With reference to the subjects referred to the Council by the General 

 Committee at Belfast, the Council have to report as follows : — 



" 2. The Committee appointed for the purpose of ' considering a plan by 

 which the Transactions of different Scientific Societies might become part of 

 one arranged system, and the records of facts and phaenomena be rendered 

 more complete, more continuous, and more systematic than at present,' has 

 obtained from the greater part of its members written communications em- 

 bodying their respective opinions on the subject in question, and it is pro- 

 posed that on the return from Italy of Professor Thomson, the originator of 

 the resolution, these communications shall be discussed and a report pre- 

 pared. 



"3. On the request of the General Committee being communicated to the 

 President and Council of the Royal Society, it was ordered by them that the 

 Huyghenian object-glass of 123 feet focus should be mounted as an aerial 

 telescope in the same manner as when employed in 1719 by Pound and 

 Bradley. The superintendence of the mounting has been undertaken by 

 Mr. De la Ruo. 



" 4. In conspqiience of a communication from the President of the British 

 Association to the President and Council of the Royal Society, a Committee 

 was formed for the purpose of taking such steps as they should deem most 

 desirable to procure the establishment in the Southern Hemisphere of a Te- 

 lescope of large optical power for the observation of the southern nebulae. 

 The Committee consisted of the following persons ; — The Earl of Rosse, Pre- 



