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proving these instruments ; and lately, by employing the new invention of gela- 
tine paper, he has not only been able to copy exactly the line which is traced 
on the plate by light, but further to print other copies for distribution. Mr. 
Ronalds’s Report of the Proceedings at Kew during the past year, which is 
prepared for reading in the Physical Section, will make known other facts 
illustrative of the state of the Observatory. Kreil’s Barometrograph, which 
was received in 1845, has been put in working order. Electrical, magnetical, 
and meteorological phenomena are those for which the apparatus now collected 
at Kew is specially adapted, and it is in a condition to admit of their being 
regularly and constantly registered—in a great degree by self-recording in- 
struments. But to provide for the constant and regular registration of all 
these phenomena would be quite incompatible with the limited funds at the 
disposal of the Association, and inconsistent with the general intention of the 
establishment—which is an Experimental Observatory, devoted to open out 
new physical inquiries, and to make trial of new modes of inquiry, but only 
in a few selected cases to preserve continuous records of passing phenomena. 
“Tt is on this view of the character of the Observatory that the Committee 
found their opinion, that it may be maintained in a state of efficiency, and 
kept always ready to take its proper share in the Advancement of Science, by 
means of a moderate annual grant from the Association. They have further 
the satisfaction to report, that the progress of the Observatory in its peculiar 
field of research is likely to be materially aided by funds provided from 
another source, the Royal Society having allotted £100 for the purchase of 
new instruments to be tried at Kew, out of the sum placed at their disposal 
by Her Majesty’s Government.” 
7. The Council have been informed by Sir John Burgoyne, Inspector- 
General of Fortifications, that the publication of the Mountjoy Meteorolo- 
gical Observations will be at once proceeded with in compliance with the 
directions of the Marquis of Anglesey, Master-General of the Ordnance. 
. 8. The Council have added the following names to the list of the Cor- 
_ responding Members of the British Association, viz. 
- Professor Gustav Magnus of Berlin. 
: Professor W. B. Rogers of Virginia. 
RECOMMENDATIONS ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL COMMITTEE AT THE 
Epinsureu Merrtine in Aueust 1850. 
Involving Application to Government or Public Institutions. 
That a Committee, consisting of the President, the Duke of Argyll, Sir 
R, I. Murchison, Professor Forbes, and the Marquis of Breadalbane, be 
appointed for the purpose of urging on Her Majesty’s Government the 
completion of the Geographical Survey of Scotland, as recommended by the 
British Association, at their former meeting in Edinburgh in 1834. 
οὐ That application be made to the Admiralty for the Publication of the 
- Reports of their Committee on Metals. 
_ - That a Committee be appointed by the Council, for the purpose of waiting 
upon Her Majesty’s Government to request that some means be taken to en- 
sure to the Science of Natural History an effective representation in the 
Trusteeship of the British Museum. 
That the Council of the Association be requested to communicate with 
the Council of the Royal Society, and also with the Government, if neces- 
