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in the civil strength of the astronomical observatory 

 at that station, and in like manner the officers of 

 the Boyal Navy, who now form the establishment of 

 the observatory at Van Diemen Island [Tasmania], 

 will be relieved as soon as the civil establishment at 

 Parramatta is completed. The Ordnance observa- 

 tories at Toronto and St. Helena are continued until 

 the close of 1848.' 



The report further showed that as the result of 

 other recommendations by the Association, a mag- 

 netic survey of the Indian Seas had been put in hand 

 by the East India Company, and that a naval officer 

 had undertaken similar work under the direction 

 of the Admiralty in one of the Hudson's Bay Com- 

 pany's vessels in Hudson Bay, with the view of 

 connecting the observations of the Canadian Survey 

 with those of the Franklin expedition in the Arctic 

 region north of America. H.M. Secretary of State for 

 Foreign Affairs acted on a further recommendation, 

 by commending the co-operation of foreign magnetic 

 and meteorological observations to the governments 

 of Russia, Austria, Prussia, Belgium, and Spain. 

 The encouragement by ' specific pecuniary reward ' 

 of the improvement of self-recording magnetic and 

 meteorological apparatus was also pressed upon the 

 Government, with successful results. 



1846-47. At the instance of the Council, the 

 Treasury approved the inclusion in the estimates 

 for 1848 of a grant for the publications of meteoro- 

 logical observations made by officers of the Irish 

 Trigonometrical Survey since 1834. 



The Council asked for a special survey of the 

 ' parallel roads ' of Glen Eoy, Scotland, but the 

 Director of the Ordnance Survey preferred that 



