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Report on the subject of a series of Resolutions adopted by the 

 British Association at their Meeting in August, 1838, at 

 Newcastle, to the following effect : — 



" Resolved. 1. That the British Association views with high 

 interest the system of simultaneous magnetic observations 

 which have been for some time carrying on in Germany and 

 various parts of Europe, and the important results to which 

 they have already led, and that they consider it highly desirable 

 that similar series of observations, regularly continued in cor- 

 respondence with, and in extension of, these should be insti- 

 tuted in various parts of the British dominions. 



" 2. That this Association considers the following localities 

 as particularly important : — Canada, Ceylon, St. Helena, Van 

 Diemen's Land, and Mauritius or the Cape of Good Hope ; and 

 that they are willing to supply instruments for their use. 



" 3. That in these series of observations the three elements 

 of horizontal direction, dip, and intensity, or their theoretical 

 equivalents be insisted on, as also their hourly changes, and on 

 appointed days their momentary fluctuations. 



" 4. That the Association considers it highly important that 

 the deficiency yet existing in our knowledge of terrestrial mag- 

 netism in the southern hemisphere should be supplied by ob- 

 servations of the magnetic direction and intensity, especially 

 in the high southern latitudes between the meridians of New 

 Holland and Cape Horn, and they desire strongly to recom- 

 mend to Her Majesty's Government the appointment of a 

 naval expedition expressly directed to that object. 



"5. That in the event of such expedition being undertaken 

 it would be desirable that the ojGficers charged with its conduct 

 should prosecute both branches of the observation alluded to in 

 Resolution 3, so far as circumstances will permit. 



" 6. That it would be most desirable that the observations so 

 performed, both at the fixed stations and in the course of the 

 expedition, should be communicated to Professor Lloyd. 



" 7. That Sir J. Herschel, Mr. Whewell, Dr. Peacock, and 

 Professor Lloyd be appointed a Committee to represent to 

 Government these recommendations. 



" 8. That the same gentlemen be empowered to act as a 

 Committee, with power to add to their number, for the purpose 



