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should be comparable with, and in continuation of, those made at the 

 last-named observatories, including four days of term observations 

 annually. 



4. That provision be also requested at the hands of Her Majesty's 

 Government, for the execution, within the period embraced by the 

 observations, of magnetic surveys in the districts immediately ad- 

 jacent to those stations, viz. of the whole of Vancouver Island and 

 the shores of the strait separating it from the main land, of the 

 Falkland Isles, and of the immediate neighbourhood of the Chinese 

 observatory (if practicable), wherever situated, on the plan of the 

 surveys already executed in the British possessions in North Ame- 

 rica, and in the Indian Archipelago. 



5. That a sum of 350 per annum, during the continuance of the 

 observations, be recommended to be placed by Government at the 

 disposal of the General Superintendent, for the purpose of procuring 

 a special and scientific verification and exact correspondence of the 

 magnetical and meteorological instruments, both of those which 

 shall be furnished to the several observatories, and of those which, 

 during the continuance of the observations for the period in question, 

 shall be brought into comparison with them, either at Foreign or 

 Colonial stations. 



6. That the printing of the observations in extenso be discon- 

 tinued, but that provision be made for their printing in abstract, 

 with discussion; but that the term observations, and those to be 

 made on the occurrence of magnetic storms, be still printed in ex- 

 tenso ; and that the registry of the observations be made in tri- 

 plicate, one copy to be preserved in the office of the General Super- 

 intendent, one to be presented to the Royal Society, and one to 

 the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, for conservation and future 

 reference. 



7. That measures be adopted for taking advantage of whatever 

 disposition may exist on the part of our Colonial Governments, to 

 establish observatories of the same kind, or otherwise to cooperate 

 with the proposed system of observation. 



8. That in placing these resolutions and the Report of the Com- 

 mittee before the President and Council of the Royal Society, the 

 continued cooperation of that Society be requested in whatever 

 ulterior measures may be requisite. 



