XXXii REPORT—1862. 
the General Committee at its Meeting on Monday, October 6, from Neweastle- 
on-Tyne, Birmingham, Bath, Nottingham, and Dundee. 
11. That the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and the Rev. 
Professor Challis be elected Vice-Presidents for the next year. 
October 1, 1862. 
WILLIAM Farrparrn, 
President. 
Report of the Kew Committee of the British Association for the 
Advancement of Science for 1861-1862. 
The Committee of the Kew Observatory submit to the Association the 
following Report of their proceedings during the past year. 
Deeming it desirable that the instrumental arrangements and scientific 
processes at use in the Observatory should be represented at the International 
Exhibition, application was made to the Commissioners for space. 
This was granted in the nave of the building, where the following instru- 
ments are at present exhibited :— 
1. A set of Self-recording Magnetographs. 
2. An instrument for tabulating from the traces furnished by the Mag- 
netographs. 
3. A Unifilar. 
4. A Dip Circle. 
5. A Self-recording Anemometer. 
6. Barometers. 
7. An instrument for testing Thermometers, also a Kew Standard Ther- 
mometer. 
8. Sun Pictures, taken by the Kew Heliograph. 
The Committee have the pleasure to inform the Association that a Medal 
has been awarded to the Kew Observatory for excellence and accuracy of 
construction of instruments for observing terrestrial magnetism; and that 
two Medals have likewise been awarded to Mr. R. Beckley, Mechanical 
Assistant at Kew, for his Registering Anemometer, and for his Photographs 
of the Sun. 
It is proposed that application be made to the Government Grant Com- 
mittee of the Royal Society for the expenses incurred through this exhibition. 
At the time when the last Report was made to the Association, the Staff 
at Kew were occupied with the verification of a set of magnetic instruments 
belonging to Prof. De Souza, of the University of Coimbra, a gentleman who 
was present at the Mecting at Manchester. The examination of these was 
shortly after completed, and the instruments, consisting of a set of Self- 
recording Magnetographs, a tabulating instrument, a Dip Circle,and a Unifilar, 
have since been safely received at Coimbra. 
The following letter was addressed to the Chairman by Prof. De Souza 
shortly before his departure :— 
* London, 26th October, 1861. 
«* My pear Srr,—I cannot leave England, where I have been exceedingly 
favoured by the Committee of the Kew Observatory of the British Associa- 
tion, without expressing to you my hearty thanks for the help I have expe- 
rienced from the Committee in the construction and verification of the 
Magnetic and Meteorologic instruments for the University of Coimbra, as 
well as for the valuable instruction which I have received, guided by the 
Director of the Kew Observatory, and the kindness which the British Asso- 
