BEPORT OF THE KEW COMMITTEE. Iv 



be verified, — the entire expense attendant thereon, or any futiu-e expense 

 arising through the connexion of the Observatory with the Meteorological 

 Department being paid from the funds supplied by the latter, and not in any 

 way from money subscribed by the British Association, These proposals 

 having been submitted to the Kew Committee, they approved of the Kew 

 Observatory being regarded as the Central Observatory of the Meteorological 

 Depai-tment, and of Mr. Stewart's holding the oifice of Secretary to the 

 Scientific Committee superintending that Department. 



"When the Meteorological Department was placed under the superinten- 

 dence of a Scientific Committee, one of the main objects contemplated was 

 the establishment of a series of meteorological observatories, working in unison 

 with the Kew Observatory, provided with similar self-recording instruments, 

 and distributed throughout the country ra such a manner that by their means 

 the progress of meteorological phenomena over the British Isles might be re- 

 corded with great exactness. 



For this piu-pose it was proposed to have observatories in the following 

 places : — 



Kew (Central Observatory). 



Falmouth. 



Stonyhurst. 



Glasgow. 



Aberdeen (probably). 



Armagh. 



Valencia. 



Such a plan of course involves an additional annual expenditure ; but, the 

 appointment of a Committee having been sanctioned in the fii'st instance by 

 the Government, and the estimates attendant thereon afterwards by the 

 House of Commons, the arrangement may now be regarded as established, 

 without iavolving any additional expense to the British Association. The 

 consequence wiU. be a considerable access of work to Kew Observatoiy, 

 and the duties now undertaken by that establishment may, for clearness' 

 sake, be considered imder the two following heads : — 



(A) The work done by Kew Observatory under the Direction of the 



British Association. 



(B) That done at Kew as the Central Observatory of the Meteorological 



Committee. 

 This system of division will be adopted in what follows of this Eeport. 



(A) WOEK DOIfE BY EIeW ObSERVATOKY FNDEE THE DiEECIION OF IHE 



British: Association. 



1. Magnetic. — The Self-recording Magnetographs ordered by the Vic- 

 toria Government for Mr. Ellery, of Melboiu-ne, have been verified at Kew, 

 and dispatched to Melbourne, where they have arrived. They will, it is be- 

 lieved, be very shortly in continuous action. 



It was mentioned in the last Eeport that a set of Self-recording Magneto- 

 graphs ordered by the Stonyhurst Observatory had been verified at Kew and 

 dispatched to their destination. These instruments are now in action at 

 Stonyhurst, under the direction of the Eev. W. Sidgreaves. 



Mr. Meldrum, of the Mauritius Observatory, who is now in this country, 

 has received at Kew instruction in the various processes of that establish- 

 ment. His SeK-recording Magnetograi)hs have been verified in his presence, 

 and they are now in the hands of the optician, who is awaiting Mr. Meldrum 's 

 instructions regarding them. 



It is hoped that very soon a considerable number of Magnetographs after 

 the Kew pattern will be in continuous operation at different parts of the 



