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MEMORANDUM. 



their ^^ishes would be best met if they could obtain the assistance of 

 oOK'O of our most eminent men of Science in the composing, by each, 

 of a plain and concise chapter upon the head of enquiry with \vhich 

 he might be most conversant, and they have been readily and kindly 

 provnised the advice and labour of Sir John Hersehel in revising the 

 whole- and preparing it for publication. The several head^ of en^ 

 quiry are as follows ; 



Astronomy 



Botany. 

 Gcograph 



Gec^ 

 Mineralogy, 



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Hydrography 





Magnetism. 



Meteorology, 



Statistics. 



Tides. 



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Indepeiv-n-.tly of r -tters of exact scien-e, their Lordships would 

 look m nianv instances, for Reports upon National Character and 

 Custom^ Religious CoreumnlPS, Agriculture and Mechanical Arts. 



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avigation^ Medicine, Tokc 



of value, and other sub- 



•ects- but for the;, only very general instructions can be given, 

 though yaluable Reports may be expected from men of o^ ^rvatK)n 

 f rid Intelliuen- :^ acting under the encouragement wh)ch the noticp 

 of whatever is well and usefully done is certain of affording. 



If would oive additional value to each cha|.a- if the name of hm. 

 bv whom it might be composed should be auixed to it ; and their 

 i:ordships are anxious that no time be lost in the prepa^t.on of tins 

 work Thev are sending a surveying vessel to New Zealand and 

 have others in the Torres Straits and in oiher parts of the world. A 

 new establishment is contemplated at Rorneo. Exped.Uons ar. pro- 

 arch of Sir John Franklin. They have cruisers in ey(.y 



it sometimes 



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ea ; and whore the ships of the navy are not pieseni 



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that tne vessels of the merchant are conducted with i--h 



intelligence and enterprise, and lor all of these the work propos.d 



would be valuable 



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