AND THE STATE 215 



Economic Geology a series of geological sections in 

 railway cuttings, etc., and documents connected 

 therewith, on which it had expended over 360, on 

 the understanding that the work was to be continued 

 at the Government's expense. 



1845-46. At the Cambridge meeting in 1845 

 important resolutions were adopted by the General 

 Committee on the motion of a conference of scientific 

 men who had taken a leading part in ' the great 

 combined system of magnetical and meteorological 

 observations ' which were in progress at the time. 

 This conference acquired an international character 

 from the presence of some of the principal foreign 

 workers in this field, and communications from others 

 who were unable to attend in person. In the follow- 

 ing year the Council was able to report the outcome 

 of action upon the resolutions adopted. The resolu- 

 tions, it is reported, ' received a very favourable 

 consideration from His Majesty's Government . . . 

 [and] from the Hon. Court of Directors of the East 

 India Company. 1 . . . The magnetic observatory 

 at Greenwich is permanently continued upon the 

 most extensive and efficient scale. The magnetical 

 and meteorological observations are constituted a 

 permanent branch of the duties of the astronomical 

 observatories at the Cape of Good Hope, Bombay, and 

 Madras, and arrangements are in progress for making 

 them also a permanent branch of the observations 

 to be made at the observatory at Parramatta. The 

 detachment of the Koyal Artillery, by whom the 

 duties at the Cape of Good Hope have been hitherto 

 performed, has been relieved by a permanent increase 



1 See Chap. VI, p. 181. 



