XXxHl REPORT— 1858. © 
To this letter the following reply was received :— 
“‘ Downing Street, Jan. 22, 1858. 
“ Str,—In reply to your letter of the 4th instant, Iam desired by Lord 
Palmerston to acquaint you that Her Majesty's Government do not think it 
advisable to take the steps recommended by you. 
“JT am, Sir, 
“ Your obedient Servant, 
(Signed) «GERALD PONSONBY.” 
“ Rev. Dr. Lloyd.” 
2. The General Committee at Dublin having placed £500 at the disposal 
of the Council, to be employed in maintaining the establishment, and pro- 
viding for the continuance of special researches at the Kew Observatory, the 
Report of the Committee to whom the Council have confided the superin- 
tendence of the Kew Observatory is herewith annexed, testifying to the great 
and still increasing public utility of that establishment. The General Com- 
mittee will recognize with pleasure, in the contribution of £150 received from 
the Royal Society, for the purchase of improved tools for the workshop of the 
Observatory, a fresh evidence of the readiness of the President and Council 
of that body to aid the objects of the Kew Observatory, by special grants 
from time to time for particular purposes. 
3. Since the communication made by the President and Council of the Royal 
Society to the General Committee in Dublin, relative to the formation of a 
‘Catalogue of the Philosophical papers contained in the various scientific 
Transactions and Journals of all Countries” (printed copies of which com- 
munication were distributed amongst the members of the General Committee 
in Dublin), this important work has been commenced under the auspices and 
at the expense of the Royal Society. It is purposed that it should include the 
titles (in the original languages) of all Memoirs published in such works, in 
the Mathematical, Physical, and Natural Sciences, from the foundation of the 
Royal Society to the present time: the titles to be so arranged as to form 
ultimately three catalogues,—one chronological, or in the order of the me- 
moirs in the several series,—one alphabetical, according to authors’ names,— 
and, lastly, a third, classified according to subjects. ‘The superintendence of 
this work has been undertaken by the officers of the Royal Society, assisted 
by a Select Committee of the Fellows. 
4. The Council have added to the list of Corresponding Members of the 
Association the names of the following foreign gentlemen, who were present 
at the Dublin Meeting, and made communications to the Sections, viz.:— 
Dr. Barth. Viscenza Pisani, Florence. 
Professor Bolzani, Kazan. Gustave Plaar, Strasburg. 
Antoine d’Abbadie, Paris. Herman Schlagintweit, Berlin. 
Professor Loomis, New York. Robert Schlagintweit, Berlin. 
5. The General Secretary has informed the Council that he communicated 
to His Royal Highness The Prince Consort the resolution of the General 
Committee at Dublin, viz. :— ! 
“ That application be made to His Royal Highness The Prince Censort for 
permission to elect him President of the British Association for the year 1859,” 
and that he had received in reply the following letter :— 
‘“‘ Balmoral, Sept. 17, 1857. 
‘‘ Srr,—I have communicated to His Royal Highness The Prince Consort 
your letter of the 12th inst., expressing, on the part of the Committee of the 
British Association, the wish that His Royal Highness would allow himself’ 
