REPORT OF THE KEW COMMITTEE. XXXi 
Report of the Council of the British Association, presented to the 
General Committee, Wednesday, August 26, 1863. 
1. The Report of the Kew Committee has been presented at each 
of the Meetings of the Council, and the General Report for the year 
1862-63 has been received, and is now presented to the General 
Committee. 
2. The Report of the Parliamentary Committee has been received 
for presentation to the General Committee this day. 
3. It will be in the recollection of the General Committee that at 
the Cambridge Meeting, when Professor Phillips resigned the office of 
Assistant-General Secretary, which he had held from the beginning of 
the Association, he was prevailed upon to join Mr. Hopkins as Joint- 
General Secretary until the present Meeting. The attention of the 
Council was called to this arrangement on the 5th of June last by Pro- 
fessor Phillips, who, in claiming permission to retire from office, recom- 
mended that in filling this office permanently at the Newcastle Meeting, 
regard should be had to the advantage of having one of the General 
Secretaries resident in London. 
On this a Committee was appointed, consisting of the General Se- 
cretaries, and the gentlemen who had formerly filled that office, for the 
purpose of reporting a recommendation to the Council of a successor to 
Professor Phillips. The Council have received the following Report :— 
« Professor Phillips, F.R.S., having kindly consented, at the re- 
quest of the General Committee of the British Association, to hold, 
in conjunction with Mr. Hopkins, F.R.S., the office of General Se- 
eretary, and being now desirous of retiring from the office; We, the 
undersigned, having been requested by the Council to suggest a 
suitable successor to Professor Phillips, beg to express our unanimous 
opinion that Mr. Francis Galton, M.A., F.R.S., of Trinity College, 
Cambridge, is well qualified to fill the office of Joint-General Secre- 
tary of the Association. « W. V. Harcourt. 
«* R. I. Murcuison. 
“¢ K. Same. 
« W. Hopxrs. 
“ J. Purtrips.” 
4, The Council have been informed that invitations will be presented 
to the General Committee, at its Meeting on Monday, August 31st, 
from Birmingham, Bath, Nottingham, Dundee, Southampton, and the 
Potteries. 
Report of the Kew Committee of the British Association for the 
Advancement of Science for 1862-1863. 
The Committee of the Kew Observatory submit to the Association the 
following statement of their proceedings during the past year. 
It was mentioned in last Report that the Director of the Lisbon Observa- 
tory had requested the Committee to superintend the construction of a set of 
Self-recording Magnetographs. This request has been complied with by the 
Committee, and a set of Self-recording Magnetographs have been constructed 
by Adie under their direction. These, along with a tabulating instrument by 
Gibson, have been verified at Kew, where Sefior Capello, of the Lisbon Obser- 
yatory, resided for some time, in order to become familiar with the working of 
his instruments, 
