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ment Grant Fund or the Donation Fund, have been kept in thorough 

 order ; and many of them are in constant use at the Observatory. 



A supply of filled thermometer-tubes, of various ranges, has been pro- 

 cured for ultimate graduation as required. 



The Committee have, through their Hon. Secretary Mr. Scott, who 

 was present at the Meteorological Congress at Vienna in the month of 

 September, as one of the Delegates from this country, professed their 

 readiness to graduate standard thermometers for any of the Continental 

 observatories which may require them, on condition that the tubes 

 supplied for graduation are sufficiently old. 



Library. The usual Donations of English and Foreign Scientific 

 Publications have been received, and a few standard works purchased. 



Staff. The Staff employed at Kew is as follows : Mr. Samuel Jeffery, 

 Superintendent ; G. M. Whipple, B.Sc., First Assistant ; T. W. Baker, 

 Second Assistant; A. J. Rigby, J. E. Cullum, J. Foster, F. Figg, E. 

 Constable. 



Note. Mr. F. J. Page resigned his appointment in January, and 

 B. Bensted was appointed as Junior Assistant. This gentleman has also 

 left, and his place has been filled by E. Constable. 



In accordance with a precedent established by the Kew Committee of 

 the British Association, by a Resolution passed in October 1867, Mr. 

 B. Loewy was employed to give instruction to the Assistants. The 

 present Committee, in March last, resolved to resume this practice, and 

 Mr. G. M. Whipple was appointed to give a course of instruction in 

 Mathematics ; and he commenced his Lectures in April. 



Mr. Robert H. Scott, F.R.S., continues to act as Honorary Secretary 

 to the Committee. 



Visitors. The Observatory has been honoured during the year by the 

 presence of several scientific men of eminence. Among these may be 

 mentioned : 



Prof. R. B. Clifton, F.R.S., Oxford. 



B. F. Craig, M.D., Army Medical Museum, Washington. 



Prof. Felix Klein. 



Dr. Radcliffe. 



R. Bowie Walcott, M.D., Inspector of Hospitals, Barbados. 



Baron von Wrangel, Hydrographic Department for the Black-Sea 

 Imperial Russian Navy. 



