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11. The General Committee assembled at Cork having placed at the disposal 

 of the Council a sum of £200 for the purpose of maintaining the establish- 

 ment at Kew, the Council reports that of this sum £118 5s. 2^d. has been 

 expended in the year which now closes, for salary and house-expenses. 



12. Letters have been received from the Mayor and Town Council of the 

 city of Bath ; from the Chairman, Committee and Secretary of the Bath Royal 

 Literary and Scientific Institution ; and from the President and Vice-Presidents 

 of the Bath Mechanics' Institution — inviting the British Association to hold its 

 meeting in tlie year 1845 in that city. 



13. The Council has been informed that the Senate of the University of 

 Cambridge has passed a grace to the effect that if the meeting of the British 

 Association should take place at Cambridge in 1845, the use of the Senate- 

 house, and such of the public buildings and lecture-rooms as may be required 

 for the different general and sectional meetings of the Association, should be 

 granted under the superintendence of a syndicate ; and further, that the Phi- 

 losophical Society of Cambridge designs, at the York Meeting, to invite the 

 British Association to hold their Meeting in 1845 at Cambridge. 



14. A letter has been received from Charles P. Deacon, Esq., Town Clerk 

 of Southampton, containing an invitation from the Mayor and Borough Coun- 

 cil to the British Association, to hold its Meeting for 1845 at Southampton ; 2 

 and stating that in such case the Guildhall, Audit-house, and other public I 

 buildings, should be placed at the disposal of the Association ; and that the 

 Literary and Scientific Society and the Polytechnic Institution would also place 

 their lecture and other rooms at the disposal of the Association, and most 

 cheerfully co-operate with the authorities in afTording every facility and as- 

 sistance in their power. 



(Signed on the part of the Council) Rosse. 



York, September 25tli, 1S44. 



