CHAP. IV. |} THE CRUISES OF THE ‘ PORCUPINE,’ ISS 
APPENDIX A. 
Extracts from the Minutes of Council of the Royal Society, and 
other Official Documents referring to the Cruise of H.ALS. 
‘Porcupine’ during the Summer of 1870 :— 
March 24, 1870. 
A Letter was read from Dr. Carpenter, addressed to the 
President, suggesting that an Exploration of the Deep Sea, such 
as was carried out during 1868 and 1869 in the regions to the 
North of the British Islands, should now be extended to the 
South of Europe and the Mediterranean, and that the Council 
of the Royal Society should recommend such an undertaking to 
the favourable consideration of the Admiralty, with a view to 
obtain the assistance of Her Majesty’s Government as on the 
previous occasions. 
Resolved,—That a Committee, consisting of the President 
and Officers, with the Hydrographer, Mr. Gwyn Jeffreys, 
Mr. Siemens, Professor Tyndall, and Dr. Carpenter, with 
power to add to their number, be appointed, to consider 
the expediency of adopting the proposal of Dr. Carpenter, 
and the plan to be followed in carrying it out, as well 
as the instruments and other appliances that would be 
required, and to report their opinion thereon to the 
Council ; but with power previously to communicate to 
the Admiralty a draft of such report as they may agree 
upon, if it shall appear to them expedient to do so in 
order to save time. 
April 8, 1870. 
Read the following Report :— 
“The Committee appointed on the 24th of March to consider 
a proposal for a further Exploration of the Deep Sea during the 
