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Kharkof ; Professors Clausius and Wartmann, of Geneva; Captain Belavenetz, 
Russian Navy ; and Captain Skariatine, Russian Marines. 
A reference to the annexed financial statement will show that, aithough 
the expenditure has exceeded the income, the Observatory has been conducted 
with the utmost regard to economy.; and the Committee recommend that for 
the ensuing year a sum of £600 should be granted, which, with other 
amounts to be received, will, it is expected, meet the necessary requirements. 
Joun P. Gasstor, 
Kew Observatory, Chairman. 
Sept. 29th, 1862. 
Report of the Parliamentary Committee to the Meeting of the British 
Association at Cambridge, October 1862. 
The Parliamentary Committee have the honour to report as follows :— 
The Bishop of Oxford, in furtherance of the resolution adopted at Liverpool 
in 1854, must be deemed to have vacated his seat in this Committee, but we 
recommend that he should be re-elected. 
Your Committee have also to report that Mr. James Heywood has not 
found it necessary to call upon them to interfere in the matter referred to 
them at Manchester by the General Committee. 
Wrorrestry, Chairman. 
Sept. 14, 1862. 
RECOMMENDATIONS ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL COMMITTEE AT THE 
CamBrivce Mrerine 1n Octoser 1862. 
{When Committees are appointed, the Member first named is regarded as the Secretary 
of the Committee, except there be a specific nomination. | 
Involving Grants of Money. 
That the sum of £600 be placed at the disposal of the Council, for main- 
taining the Establishment of Kew Observatory. 
That the sum of £100 be placed at the disposal of the Council, for the pur- 
pose of making an addition to the out-buildings at Kew Observatory, to receive 
the Photoheliograph, now in the hands of Mr. De la Rue. 
That the cooperation of the Royal Society be requested for the purpose of 
completing and proving the instruments devised for obtaining Photographic 
registration of the physical aspect of the Sun. 
That the Committee, consisting of Professor Williamson, Professor Wheat- 
stone, Professor W. Thomson, Professor W. H. Miller, Dr. A. Matthiessen, 
and Mr. Fleeming Jenkin, appointed at the Manchester Meeting, be requested 
to continue their Report on Standards of Electrical Resistance, and to extend 
it to other Electrical Standards; and that Dr. Esselbach, Sir C. Bright, Pro- 
fessor Maxwell, Mr. C. W. Siemens, and Mr. Balfour Stewart be added to the 
Committee; and that the sumof £100 be placed at their disposal for the 
purpose. 
That the Committee to report upon Standards of Electrical Resistance, be 
