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388 Proceedings of the British Association. 
Anr. XXI.—Abstract of the Proceedings of the Thirteenth Meeting of 
the British Association for the Advancement of Science. 
Tue thirteenth meeting of this noble institution was held at Cork, 
Ireland, commencing on the 16th of August last, and continuing its 
sessions until the 23d. The British Association was instituted in Sep- 
tember, 1831, and reports of its proceedings, more or less in detail, 
have been regularly given in this Journal. The present abstract of the, 3 
transactions of the last meeting should have accompanied our preceding : 
No. but was excluded by the pressure of important communications, 
the insertion of which had been previously promised ; and the crowded 
state of our pages compels us now to omit many valuable and inter: 
esting papers, and to confine ourselves to abridged reports of some of 
those subjects which fall more appropriately within the scope of this 
Journal. 
The general meeting was on Thursday evening, August 17th, when 
the annual address, on the objects and results of the Association, was 
delivered by the President, the Earl of Rosse. 
From the Report of the Treasurer it appeared, that the receipts from 
June 23d, 1842, to August 14th, 1843, amounted to £3271 4s. 4d., in- 
cluding a balance on hand from the previous year of £538 14s. 6d. 
The expenditures amounted to £2775 3d. 
At the meeting of the General Committee, Col. Sabine read the Re- 
port of the proceedings of the Council during the past year, from which 
we take only the interesting item, that application had been made to 
Government to undertake the publication of the Catalogue of Stars in 
the Histoire Céleste of Lalande, and of Lacaille’s Catalogue of the 
Stars in the Southern hemisphere, which has been reduced and prepa 
ed for publication at the expense of the British Association ; and that 
Her Majesty’s government had given the necessary directions for issu 
ing £1000 for the completion of the work in question. 
Grants of money for the prosecution of the objects of the Associa- 
tion, were recommended by the General Committee, to the amount of 
£1877—of which £1007 were appropriated to the Physical Section, and 
£650 of this latter sum to Mr. Baily, for the publication of the British 
Association Catalogue of Stars. Among the recommendations not in- 
volving pecuniary grants, we notice, that Prof. Bache be requested bad 
proceed with his report on American meteorology. P 
It was unanimously resolved, that the next meeting of the Associa 
tion should be held at York, in the course of September, 1844,—the 
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* Condensed from the Report in the London Atheneum. 
