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the Society, is understood to have recommenced its hourly observa- 

 tions, and stands only in need of an apparatus for the vertical force 

 (which might be readily supplied from this country), to contribute 

 its full complement to the required data. More than half the stations 

 may therefore be regarded as already provided for, and there are 

 other Russian observatories in the desired latitudes and longitudes 

 which might be completed with instruments for a full participation. 

 It would be wrong to conclude these imperfect notices without 

 recognizing how greatly the researches have been aided in their 

 progress by the united and unfailing countenance and support of the 

 Royal Society and of the British Association. The Kew Observatory 

 owes its existence and maintenance to funds most liberally supplied 

 from year to year by the British Association ; and the cost of the 

 self-recording magnetic instruments, of which the first instalment of 

 the results has formed the early part of this paper, was supplied from 

 funds at the disposal of the Council of the Royal Society. Mag- 

 netical science, rapidly as it is advancing, is even yet in its infancy ; 

 and it is in their early stages particularly that all branches of natural 

 knowledge stand in need of the fostering aid of societies in which 

 science is valued and cultivated for its own sake. 



November 22, 1860. 



Major-General SABINE, R.A., Treasurer and Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



John Thomas Quekett, Esq., was admitted into the Society. 



In accordance with the Statutes, notice was given of the ensuing 

 Anniversary Meeting, and the list of Council and Officers proposed 

 for election was read as follows : 



President. Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, Bart., D.C.L. 

 Treasurer. Major-General Edward Sabine, R.A., D.C.L. 



f William Sharpey, M.D., LL.D. 



Secretaries. _, -,,.,01 -^ UTAT^^T 



I George Gabriel Stokes, Esq., M.A., D.C.L. 



Foreign Secretary. William Hallows Miller, Esq., M.A. 

 Other Members of the Council. John Couch Adams, Esq. ; Sir 



