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PEESONAL ESTABLISHMENT. 

 The staff employed is as follows : 



G. M. Whipple, B.Sc., Superintendent. 



T. W. Baker, Chief Assistant. 



H. McLaughlin, Librarian. 



E. G. Constable, Observations and Rating. 



W. Hugo, Verification Department. 



J.Foster 



T. Gunter. 



W. J. Boxall, and five other Assistants. 



The Committee feel that they cannot permit the lamented death of 

 Professor Balfour Stewart to pass unnoticed. 



Professor Stewart's connexion with the Observatory originated in 

 1856, when it was under the control of the British Association. In 

 February of that year he joined the staff as an Assistant Observer to 

 Mr. John Welsh ; his stay was, however, short, as he left soon after in 

 October to become Assistant to Professor Forbes at Edinburgh, but 

 returned in 1859 as the Superintendent, accepting the appointment 

 when offered him on the death of Mr. Welsh. He relinquished the 

 superintendence in 1871, in order to reside at Manchester as Pro- 

 fessor of Physics in Owens College, but maintained a most lively 

 interest in the operations of the Observatory, especially in the 

 solar and magnetic work, being engaged in a discussion of certain of 

 the Kew magnetic observations even up to the time of his death. 

 The most important of his papers referring to these and similar obser- 

 vations are enumerated in the appendix to Mr. Scott's " History of 

 the Kew Observatory."* 



(Signed) WARREN DE LA RUE, Chairman. 



November 27th, 1888. 



* See 'Hoy. Soc. Proc.,' vol. 39, pp. 37-86 (1886). 



