REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. XXIX 



of Her Majesty's Board of Ordnance, be obtained, to extend over a period 

 of not more than five years, at the following stations : — 



1. Vancouver Island. 



2. Newfoundland. 



3. The Falkland Isles. 



<k Pekin, or some near adjacent station. 



" That an application be made to Her Majesty's Government to obtain 

 the establishment of Observatories at these stations for the above-mentioned 

 term, on a personal and material footing, and under the same superintend- 

 ence as in the Observatories (now discontinued) at Toronto, St. Helena, 

 and Van Diemen's Land. 



"That the observations at the Observatories now recommended should 

 be comparable with, and in continuation of, those made at the last-named 

 Observatories, including four days of term-observations annually. 



" That provision be also requested at the hands of Her Majesty's Govern- 

 ment, for the execution, within the period embraced by the observations, 

 of magnetic surveys in the districts immediately adjacent to those stations, 

 viz. of the whole of Vancouver's Island and the shores of the Strait sepa- 

 rating it from the main laud, — of the Falkland Isles, — and of the immediate 

 neighbourhood of the Chinese Observatory (if practicable) wherever situ- 

 ated, — on the plan of the surveys already executed in the British posses- 

 sions in Nortli America and in the Indian Archipelago. 



"That a sum of £350 per annum, during the continuance of the obser- 

 vations, be recommended to be placed by Government at the disposal of 

 the General Superintendent, for the purpose of procuring a special and 

 scientific verification and exact correspondence of the magnetical and me- 

 teorological instruments, both of those which shall be furnished to the 

 several Observatories, and of those which, during the continuance of the 

 observations for the period in question, shall be brought into comparison 

 with them, either at Foreign or Colonial Stations. 



" That the printing of the observations in extenso be discontinued, but 

 that provision be made for their printing in abstract, with discussion ; but 

 that the Term-Observations, and those to be made on the occurrence of 

 Magnetic Storms, be still printed in extenso; and that the registry of the 

 observations be made in triplicate, one copy to be preserved in the office 

 of the General Superintendent, one to be presented to the Royal Society, 

 and one to the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, for conservation and 

 future reference. 



" That measures be adopted for taking advantage of whatever disposi- 

 tion may exist on the part of our Colonial Governments to establish Obser- 

 vatories of the same kind, or otherwise to cooperate with the proposed 

 system of observation. 



" That in placing these Resolutions and the Report of the Committee 

 before the President and Council of the Royal Society, the continued co- 

 operation of that Society be requested in whatever ulterior measures may 

 be requisite. 



" That the President of the British Association be requested to act in 

 conjunction with the President of the Royal Society, and with the Members 

 of the two Committees, in any steps which appear necessary for the 

 accomplishment of the objects above stated. 



" That an early communication be made of this procedure to His Royal 

 Highness The Prince Consort, the President Elect of the British Associa- 

 tion for the ensuing year." 



