22 THE VOYAGE OF H. M.S. CHALLENGER. 



" ' The President and Council of the Royal Society therefore recommend as a fit and proper person, to 

 superintend and be at the head of the Civilian Scientific Staff of the Expedition, Wyville Thomson, LL.D., 

 F.R.S., &c, Regius Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh ; and that, as Professor 

 Thomson will have to give up his position, with its emoluments, at Edinburgh for the time he is absent, the 

 President and Council are of opinion that a less sum than £1000 per annum cannot properly be offered to him. 



" ' They propose that the other members of the Staff and their Salaries should be as follows : — 



Mr. John James Wild, as Secretary to the Director and Artist, . . . . £400 



Mr. John Young Buchanan, M.A. (Glas.), Principal Laboratory Assistant in the 



University of Edinburgh, as Chemist and Physicist, .... 200 

 Mr. Henry Nottidge Moseley, B.A. (Oxon.), Eadcliffe Travelling Fellow of Oxford 



University, as Naturalist, ....... 200 



Mr. William Stirling, D.Sc. (Ed in.), M.B., Falconer Fellow of the University of 



Edinburgh, as Naturalist, 1 ........ 200 



Mr. John Murray, as Naturalist, ....... 200 ' 



" The Committee further report that Professor Wyville Thomson informed them that he had gone with 

 Admiral Richards to Sheerness to examine the Challenger, and that the arrangements appeared to be satisfactory 

 in every respect." 



Resolved, — That the Report of the Circumnavigation Committee be adopted, and that a communication be 

 made to the Admiralty in terms of their recommendation. 



November lith, 1872. 



The Council proceeded to consider the Report of the Circumnavigation Committee. 

 The following is the Letter from the Admiralty to which the Report refers : — 



"Admiralty, August 22nd, 1872. 

 " Sir, — With reference to my letter of the 6th instant, and to previous correspondence on the subject of 

 the intended deep-sea exploratory Expedition, I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty 

 to acquaint you that H.M.S. Challenger will probably be ready to leave this country about the end of 

 November j and their Lordships will be glad to learn what are the precise objects of research which the 

 President and Council of the Royal Society have in view, and in what particular portions of the Ocean such 

 investigations may, in their opinion, be carried out with the greatest advantage to science and the best 

 probability of success. 



"2. The object of their Lordships is to frame their instructions to the Officer in command of the 

 Challenger, so far as may be possible, to meet the recommendations of the President and Council of the 

 Royal Society. 



" I am, Sir, 



" Your obedient Servant, 



" Vernon Lushington." 

 "W. Sharpey, Esq., M.D., $c. 

 "Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House." 



The Report having been considered, was adopted as follows : — 



The Circumnavigation Committee have had before them the Letter from the Admiralty to the Eoyal 

 Society, dated August 22, 1872, and as the Council were not in Session and the matter was pressing, they 

 have thought it best to treat the letter as having been referred to them by the Council. They beg leave to 

 recommend to the Council that an answer be returned to the Admiralty to the following effect : — 



* Dr. Stirling resigned his appointment before the departure of the Expedition (see p. 33). 



