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cellor Chauvenet, Professor J. H. C. Coffin, U.S.N., Pro- 
fessor J. F. Frazer, Professor A. Guyot, Mr. J. E. Hilgard, 
Professor B. Peirce, Professor J. D. Dana, and Professor 
J. Winlock, U.S.N., who came to their conclusions early 
in October, which were adopted by the Academy after dis- 
cussion, on the 9th of January, and which are expressed in 
the eee resolutions : — 
“ Regstved by the National Academy of Sciences, That, in 
fazon of this Academy, the volumes entitled ‘ Sailing 
et@us; heretofore issued to navigators from the Naval 
Obseetathey: and the ‘Wind and Current Charts’ which 
they are designed to illustrate and explain, embrace much 
<S@@igb is unsound in philosophy, and little that is practically 
Ljand that, therefore, these publications ought no eee 
to be issued in their present form. 
“ Resolved, That the records of meteorological phenomena 
and of other important facts connected with terrestrial 
physics, which, under the direction of the Navy Depart- 
ment, have been accumulated at the Observatory, are ca- 
pable of being turned to valuable account, and that it is 
eminently desirable that such information should continue 
to be collected, and subjected to careful discussion. 
“ Resolved, That the President of the Academy be author- : 
ized and requested to communicate to the Secretary of the- 
Navy a copy of the foregoing resolutions and of this report, 
as a response to the inquiry addressed to the Academy upo2 
this subject by that officer.” 
The report of this Committee, marked I, is appended to 
this Report. 
It was, on motion, 
“ Resolved, That a copy of each report made on the appli- 
eation of the Navy Department be forwarded by the Pres- 
ident of the Academy to the Hon. Secretary of the Navy-” 
