REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. XXX1 
Report of the Council of the British Association, presented to the 
General Committee, Wednesday, October 1, 1862. 
1. The Council were directed by the General Committee at Manchester to 
maintain the Establishment of the’ Kew Observatory, and a grant of £500 
was placed at their disposal for the purpose. They have received at each of 
their Meetings regular accounts of the proceedings of the Committee of the 
Observatory, and they now lay before the General Committee a General 
Report of these proceedings during the year 1861-62. (See Report of Kew 
Committee for 1861-62.) 
2. A sum of £40 was placed at the disposal of the Kew Committee for the 
employment of the Photoheliometer ; and a further sum of £150 for the pur- 
pose of obtaining a series of photographic pictures of the Solar surface, with 
the cooperation of the Royal Society. The Report of the Kew Committee 
will make known the results of these recommendations. 
3. The Report of the Parliamentary Committee has been received by the 
Council for presentation to the General Committee today, and is printed for 
the information of the Members. (See Report of Parliamentary Committee.) 
4. The Council have to regret the absence from this Meeting of the General 
Secretary, Mr. Hopkins, through indisposition, which they sincerely hope will 
soon be removed. 
5. The ‘Classified Index’ to the Transactions of the Association, which 
was authorized to be prepared under the direction of Professor Phillips, is 
completed in one of the main divisions ; the remainder will be printed with- 
out delay, and will be delivered to the Members who have subscribed for it 
before the end of the present year, 
6. At that date it is the request of Professor Phillips to be allowed to 
withdraw from the office of Assistant General Secretary to which he has been 
appointed, by Annual Election in the General Committee, for nearly thirty- 
two years. Having for two years received the useful aid of Mr. G. Griffith, 
M.A., of Jesus College, Oxford, he has expressed to the Council his conviction 
of the fitness of that gentleman to undertake the duties which have been so 
long entrusted to himself. 
7. The Council having considered the subject, and having ascertained from 
Professor Phillips that he would be happy to cooperate with Mr. Hopkins as 
Junior General Secretary in the next year, recommend that the arrangement 
here suggested be carried out by the General Committee. 
8. The Council received in April, 1862, a communication from Mr. John 
Taylor, Jun., and Mr, Richard Taylor, requesting that, on account of his 
great age, their father, Mr. Taylor, might be relieved of all further duties as 
General Treasurer and Co-Trustee of the Association. . 
The warmest thanks of the Council were given to Mr. Taylor for his kind 
attention and most valuable services rendered to the Association in two im- 
portant offices, as one of the Trustees and sole General Treasurer, and their 
regret that any cause should render it necessary for him to desire to be re- 
lieved from the duties which he has so efficiently performed for the great 
advantage of the Association, almost from its foundation. 
. 9, Sir Philip de Grey Egerton, Bart., was then requested to accept the 
office of Trustee of the British Association; and Mr. W. Spottiswoode to 
undertake the duty of General Treasurer to the Association. 
+ These Gentlemen haye kindly consented to act, and have entered on their 
uties, 
10. The Council have been informed that Invitations will be presented to 
