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as the state of the moon permits me to continue my observations. I 

 will gladly, however, meet you and Mr. Dollond any morning, pi'o- 

 vided you arrange your times early enough to admit of my return to 

 Slough befor-e dusk, and will give me, if possible, sufficient notice, 

 and the choice of two days. With regard to the train of experiments 

 you may think it necessary to engage in, Mr. Dollond, I am sure, as 

 well as myselF, feel every disposition to defer to your superior 

 chemical knowledge, and wish to be as little a clog on your researches 

 as possible. The essential point consists in preserving a very accurate 

 detail of our proceedings, and making (as we are bound to do) a full 

 report of them ; and perhaps it might be as well to meet periodically 

 (in our capacity of a sub-committee) at stated, or at least preconcerted 

 days, in order to preserve a strict formality in all we do. "What say 

 you to the following sketch: 1. Mr. Dollond, Chaix-man; Mr. 

 Faraday, Journalist and Treasurer ; Mr. Herschel, Secretary, — of the 

 sub-committee for the following year. 2. Sub-committee to hold 

 regular meetings on the (Tuesday 1) next immediately adjacent to, or 

 on the day of every full moon (at o'clock), except during the 

 months of in the summer vacation, and intermediate meetings 



when necessary. 3. A regular journal to be kept of all the experi- 

 ments made and of all the alterations made in the apparatus, by the 

 Journalist. 4. A book to be kept in which any one may enter any 

 suggestion of an experiment to be considered by the sub-committee- 

 5. The Treasurer to keep an account of all expenses. 6. The business 

 of the sub- committee at meetings to be arranged as follows : (1.) 

 Minutes of last meeting. (2.) Reconsideration thereof and confirma- 

 tion. (3.) Journal of the last meeting to be read. (4. ) Journal to be 

 ordered to be entered on the Minutes (or regarded as part of them, 

 to avoid trouble of copying — though perhaps a duplicate may be 

 desirable in prudence). (5.) Treasurer's account to be audited for the 

 past month. (6.) Results of experiments to be discussed. (7.) Sug- 

 gestions to be read, and plans of future experiments to be considered 

 after. The sub-committee to make three reports — one at Christmas, 

 one after Easter, and one annual, at the Council, after the meeting of 

 the Society in ISTovember. If you approve this plan, and it also 

 meets Mr. DoUond's approbation, the sooner we act on it the better. 

 Yours truly, J. F. W. Herschel." (3.) In the fourth subdivision 

 of " Leaves they have Touched," I gave some account of the Rev. 

 Charles Simeon, Senior Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, in 1835, 



