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REPORT — 1«59. 



SECTION F. — 'ECONOMIC SCIENCE AND STATISTICS. 



President.— Colonel Svkes, M.P., F.R.S. 



Vice-Presidents.— Lord Monteagle, M.A., F.R.S. ; W. The, M.P., F.R.S, ; Alex- 

 ander Thomson of Banchory; Principal the Rev. D. Dewar, D.D., LL.D. 



Secretaries. — John Strang, LL.D. ; Edmund Macrory, M.A. ; H. Ambrose 

 Smith ; Professor Cairnes. 



SECTION G. MECHANICAL SCIENCE. 



President. — The Rev. Professor Willis, M.A. , F.R.S., Jacksonian Professor, Cam- 

 bridge. 



Vice-Presidents. — J. F. Bateman, C.E. ; Admiral Drinkwater Bethune, C.B., 

 F.R.G.S. ; W. Fairbairn, C.E., F.R.S. ; Vice-Admiral Moorsom ; The Rev. Canon 

 Moseley, M.A., F.R.S.; G. Rennie, F.R.S.; T. Webster, F.R.S. 



Secretaries.— R. Abernethy ; P. Le Neve Foster, M.A. ; H. Wright. 



CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. 



Professor Agassiz, Cambridge, Massa- 

 chusetts. 

 M. Babinet, Paris. 

 Dr. A. D. Bache, Washington. 

 Professor Bolzani, Kazan. 

 Barth, Dr. 



Mr. P. G. Bond, Cambridge, U.S. 

 M. Boutigny (d'Evreux). 

 Professor Braschmann, Moscow. 

 Chevalier Bunsen, Heidelberg. 

 Dr. Ferdinand Cohn, Breslau. 

 M. Antoine d'Abbadie. 

 M. De la Rive, Geneva. 

 Professor Dove, Berlin. 

 Professor Dumas, Paris. 

 Dr. J. Milne-Edwards, Paris. 

 Professor Ehrenberg, Berlin. 

 Dr. Eisenlohr, Carlsruhe. 

 Professor Encke, Berlin. 

 Dr. A. Erman, Berlin. 

 Professor Esmark, Chrislianio . 

 Professor G. Forchhammer, Copenhagen. 

 M. Leon Foucault, Paris. 

 Prof. E. Fremy, Paris. 

 M. Frisiani, Milan. 

 Professor Asa Gray, Cambridge, U. S. 

 Professor Henry, Washington, U.S. 

 M. Jacobi, St. Petersburg. 

 Prof. A. Kblliker, Wurzburg. 

 Prof. De Koninck, Liege. 

 Professor Kreil, Vienna. 

 Dr. A. KupfFer, St. Petersburg. 



Dr. Lamont, Munich. 



Prof. F. Lanza, 



M. Le Verrier, Paris. 



Baron von Liebig, Munich. 



Professor Loomis, New York. 



Professor Gustav Magnus, Berlin. 



Professor Matteucci, Pisa. 



Professor von Middendoxff, St. Petersburg. 



M. l'Abbe Moigno, Paris. 



Professor Nilsson, Sweden. 



Dr. N. Nordensciold, Finland. 



M. E. Peligot, Paris. 



Viscenza Pisani, Florence. 



Gustave Plaar, Sirasburg. 



Chevalier Plana, Turin. 



Professor Plucker, Bonn. 



M. Constant Prevost, Paris. 



M. Quetelet, Bntssels. 



Prof. Retzius, Stockholm. 



Professor H. D. Rogers, Boston, U.S. 



Professor H. Rose, Berlin. 



Herman Schlagintweit, Berlin. 



Robert Schlagintweit, Berlin. 



Dr. Siljestrom, Stockholm. 



M. Struve, Pidkowa. 



Dr. Svanberg, Stockholm. 



M. Pierre Tchihatchef. 



Dr. Van der Hoeven, Leyden. 



Baron Sartorius von Waltershausen, 



Gottingen. 

 Professor Wavtmann, Geneva. 



Report of the Council of the British Association, presented to the 

 General Committee at Aberdeen, September 14, 1859. 



1. With reference to the subjects referred to the Council by the General 

 Committee at Leed^, the Council have to report as follows: — ■ 



a. The General Committee passed the following resolutions, viz. — 



" That it is highly desirable that a series of Magnetical and Meteorolo- 

 gical Observations, on the same plan as those which have been already 

 carried on in the Colonial Observatories for thatpurpose,under the direction 



