Report of the Incorporated Kew Committee for the Year 

 ending December 31, 1893. 



The operations of The Kew Observatory, in the Old Deer Park, 

 Richmond, Surrey, are controlled by the Incorporated Kew Committee, 

 which is constituted as follows : 



Mr. F. Galton, Chairman. 



Captain W. de W. Abney, C.B., 



R.E. 



Prof. W. G. Adams. 

 Captain E. W. Creak, R.tf. 

 Prof. G. C. Foster. 

 Admiral Sir Gr. H. Richards, 



K.C.B. 

 The Earl of Rosse, K.P. 



Prof. A. W. Riicker. 



Mr. R. H. Scott. 



Lieutenant- General R. Strachey, 



C.S.I. 



General J. T. Walker, C.B. 

 Captain W. J. L. Wharton, 



R.N. 



On February 9 the Kew Committee became registered under the 

 Companies Acts, 1862 and 1867, as the " Incorporated Kew Com- 



ittee of the Royal Society." 



The Memorandum and Articles of Association are given in Ap- 

 pendix A. 



It is with deep regret that the Committee have to report the 

 decease of the late Superintendent of the Observatory, Mr. G. M. 

 Whipple, B.Sc., which occurred on the 8th of February, after a 

 serious illness of more than seven months. He had been connected 

 with the Observatory in various capacities for thirty-four years, and 

 had filled the office of Superintendent since 1876. Under his efficient 

 management the work at the Observatory had been largely aug- 

 mented in amount and variety, and the funds at its disposal for 

 purchase of apparatus and extension of its premises had steadily 

 increased. Mr. Whipple was the author of numerous papers on 

 Meteorological and other subjects connected with the work of the 

 Observatory, which appeared in the ' Proceedings of the Royal 

 Society,' the ' Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society,' 



d other scientific publications. 





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