XXXVl REPORT—1858. 
The following is a Statement showing the expense of the last two years ; 
an additional Assistant is now indispensable as a Photographer ; and as the 
work of the Observatory increases, and its capabilities for the purposes of 
science become further developed, the probable future expenditure cannot 
be fairly estimated at less than £300 per annum. 
STATEMENT. 
1857. 1858. 
G8.) 1d fis ee ad: 
Salaries....... Pen ciate oak tee 3" Sor tae O 471 8 O 
Apparatus :— 
Materials; Tools, &@.2 2 32.'¢ 22 LS 25" TOM ee 59 6 4 
Ironmonger, &¢....4...20066- af TG Oe Meg Sere TOMES NS 
Stationery, &¢.......0.2------ 24 °9 8 20 11 O 
Coals and Gas. ....0...2+.5. ste BOE OR EU a oD gee 
House Expenses......... Saeates SPP SLO 2 2e 20 11 8 
Porterage and Petty Expenses... 519 3 .... 612 4 
Rent of Land...... Be iy te AY OO ee en ea ae 
E80 454 TL STIS 
The above is the actual expenditure, but the real annual increase in salaries 
is about £61 : the difference in the above statement arises from the termination 
of the financial year being one month later than last year. In the detailed 
statement of receipts and expenditure, it will be observed that the amount 
received for verification of meteorological instruments has decreased, arising 
from the circumstance that the Meteorological department of the Govern- 
ment is now well provided with a store of instruments for its use. 
As the financial position of the Observatory will probably be brought 
forward by the Council at the General Meeting of the Association at Leeds, 
the Committee suggest that the time has now arrived when strenuous efforts 
should be made to obtain such an amount of pecuniary aid as would ensure 
the permanent efficient working of this practical physical Observatory ; for 
although the establishment is conducted with the strictest economy, the 
necessary work connected with the Observatory unavoidably creates a cor- 
responding increase in the amount of the annual expenditure. 
Joun P. Gassiot, Chairman. 
Kew Observatory, 
10th September, 1858. 
Report of the Parliamentary Committee to the Meeting of the British 
Association at Leeds, in September 1858. 
The Parliamentary Committee have the honour to report as follows :— 
That on their representation the late President of the Board of Trade had 
so far acceded to the suggestions of the President and Council of the Royal 
Society, supported by the British Association, as to consent to the construc- 
tion of one Anemometer with Dr. Robinson’s Revolving Cups, which would 
be erected at Bermuda. We believe, however, that another instrument of 
the same description will be erected at Halifax, at the cost of the Board of 
Admiralty. These Anemometers are to be constructed on a principle devised 
by Mr. Welsh of the Kew Observatory, and they will cost about £50 each. 
We are happy to be enabled to add, that the late President of the Board of 
Trade, on a representation made to him by us of the insufficiency of the 
