388 Proceedings of the British Association. 



Art. XXL — Abstract of the Proceedings of the Thirteenth Meeting of 

 the British Association for the Advancement of Science* 



The thirteenth meeting of this noble institution was held at Cork, 

 Ireland, commencing on the 16th of August last, and continuing its 

 sessions until the 23d. The British Association was instituted in Sep- 

 tember, 1831, and reports of its proceedings, more or less in detail, 

 have been regularly given in this Journal. The present abstract of the 

 transactions of the last meeting should have accompanied our preceding 

 No. but was excluded by the pressure of important communications, 

 the insertion of which had been previously promised ; and the crowded 

 state of our pages compels us now to omit many valuable and inter- 

 esting papers, and to confine oui'selves to abridged reports of some of 

 those subjects which fall more appropriately within the scope of this 

 Journal. 



The general meeting was on Thursday evening, August 17th, when 

 the annual address, on the objects and results of the Association, was 

 delivered by the President, the Earl of Rosse. 



From the Report of the Treasurer it appeared, that the receipts from 

 June 23d, 1842, to August 14th, 1843, amounted to .£3271 4s. Ad., in- 

 cluding a balance on hand from the previous year of £538 14s. 6d. 

 The expenditures amounted to £2775 3d. 



At the meeting of the General Committee, Col. Sabine read the Re- 

 port of the proceedings of the Council during the past year, from which 

 we take only the interesting item, that application had been made to 

 Government to undertake the publication of the Catalogue of Stars in 

 the Histoire Celeste of Lalande, and of Lacaille's Catalogue of the 

 Stars in the Southern hemisphere, which has been reduced and prepar- 

 ed for publication at the expense of the British Association ; and that 

 Her Majesty's government had given the necessary directions for issu- 

 ing £1000 for the completion of the work in question. 



Grants of money for the prosecution of the objects of the Associa- 

 tion, were recommended by the General Committee, to the amount of 

 £1877 — of which £1007 were appropriated to the Physical Section, and 

 £650 of this latter sum to Mr. Baily, for the publication of the British 

 Association Catalogue of Stars. Among the recommendations not in- 

 volving pecuniary grants, we notice, that Prof. Bache be requested to 

 proceed with his l'eport on American meteorology. 



It was unanimously resolved, that the next meeting of the Associa- 

 tion should be held at York, in the course of September, 1844, — the 



* Condensed from the Report in the London Athenaeum. 



