218 THE ASSOCIATION 



1850-51. In connexion with the Ordnance 

 Survey of Scotland, a memorial was presented to the 

 Government pointing out that in sixteen years only 

 Wigtownshire (less than a sixtieth part of Scotland) 

 had been mapped : this memorial was followed by 

 the appointment of a committee of the House of 

 Commons to inquire into the whole subject of the 

 survey. 



The Council's report of this year contains a special 

 tribute to ' the courtesy with which applications 

 on the part of the Association have been received ' 

 by the Government, and to its general readiness to 

 comply with them. 



1851-52. The Council reports its failure to 

 obtain a Government grant towards the publication 

 of Huxley's zoological and anatomical researches 

 made during the voyage of H.M.S. Rattksnake. 

 The Council also prepared to take action relating to 

 the publication of Hooker's researches on Indian 

 botany, and of Strachey's explorations in the 

 Himalayas and Tibet, but their wishes in these 

 important matters were found to have been for- 

 tunately forestalled. 



1852-53. Correspondence took place between the 

 President of the Association, the Director of the 

 Coast Survey of the United States of America, 

 and the Hydrographer of the Admiralty, on the 

 subject of investigating the zoology and botany of 

 the Gulf Stream in connexion with its hydrographic 

 survey. 



Instruments were supplied by the Master General 

 and Board of Ordnance, at the instance of the 

 Association, for measuring the direction and amount 

 of earthquake vibrations in the Ionian Islands. 



