976 British Association for the Advancement of Science. 
The London Atheneum, (Nos. 565—568, ) contains a copious 
and excellent Report of the doings of the meeting. It is impos- 
sible, in the limits within which other claims upon our pages 
compel us to bring this article, to give-more than a condensed 
summary of that Report. We shall of course be obliged to pass 
with a bare mention, many of the papers, and to abridge others 
more than we could wish. We shall endeavor to lay before our 
readers those topics which fall more particularly within the prov- 
ince of this Journal. / 
The financial concerns of the Association are highly pa age 
On the 31st of July, 1838, its property amounted to £6812 | 
ld., viz. in books, £1000 7s. 6d., and in stocks and cash on aie 
£5812 10s. 7d. During the year: £932 2s. 2d. were eee 
for the prosecution of various scientific investigations. 
As heretofore, the meeting was distributed into independent 
sections, holding distinct daily sessions. 
The next meeting of the Association - will be — at as 
ham, during the month of August, 1839. 
Section A. \ Mathematical and Physical Science. 
_It was reported to the section, 
1. That the Committee appointed to. represent to the Govern- 
ment the importance of reducing the Greenwich Observations on 
the Moon, had waited on the Chancellor of the Exchequer, _ and 
that the sum of £2000 had been appropriated for that purpose, 
which was placed at the disposal of the Astronomer Royal, who 
had-undertaken to superintend the reductions. 
2. That the reduction of the. Stars, intended to ae the en- 
larged Catalogue of the Royal Astronomical Society, was in pro- 
gress ;—and (3) also the sedation of thé Stars in the Histoire 
Celéste. _ 
A. That arrangements had Saoeei piictacacth aecowal for the 
establishment of -an- Observatory at Liverpool, and would be car- 
ried into effect as soon as the eer power could be obtained 
from Parliament. 
Lieut. Col. Reid on Redjiclats Law sof Sirens. 
Tiéut Col. Reid, R. E. then read * A Report explaining the 
em made towards selene: the Law of Storms, ane a 
