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The Committee, consisting of Dr. Chapman, Dr. Patterson, 

 and Mr. Richards, which was appointed at the last meeting to 

 devise means for completing the magnetic and meteorological 

 observations which have been in progress during the past year, 

 presented their report; and the recommendations of the Com- 

 mittee being under consideration, the Society adjourned to 

 Friday evening the 25th instant. 



Adjourned Meeting, June 25. 



Present, thirty-five members. 



Judge Hopkinson, Vice President, in the Chair. 



The Society resumed the consideration of the report which 

 was under discussion at the adjournment of the last meeting. 



In this report the Committee review the history of the con- 

 certed observations first proposed by the Royal Society of 

 London in 1839, and refer to the action of this Society in con- 

 sequence of the circular from that learned body. They ex- 

 press the strongest confidence in the skill, assiduity, and suc- 

 cess, with which the operations of the magnetic observatory at 

 Girard College have been thus far conducted, and a belief that 

 their prosecution is called for by the honour of the Society. 

 They pledge themselves, that as the funds required for the 

 past year's expenditure have been furnished by individual con- 

 tributions of the members and their friends, so those for the 

 third year shall be supplied in like manner, if the Society will 

 defray the charges of the intervening period from its corporate 

 funds. 



After a full discussion of the subject, resolutions were 

 adopted by the Society — 1. Directing the Committee on the 

 Observatory to ask permission from the City Councils of Phi- 

 ladelphia to constitute, from certain moneys heretofore paid 

 by the city, a fund for the promotion of astronomical and 

 magnetic researches, and the publication of the results thereof: 

 2. Authorizing the Committee to refund, if required, certain 



