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making material progress in preparing the observations in ques^ 

 tion for reduction, but hopes before the next Meeting to get 

 them executed ; and requests the grant of the Association may- 

 be continued for that purpose, and that the surplus, if any, may 

 be made applicable to the reduction of other meteorological ob- 

 servations communicated to him while resident at the Cape and 

 since, and not made at the solstices and equinoxes, but in the 

 form of monthly registers. 



On a grant of 500/. made for the reducti(m of stars in the 

 Histoire Celeste, under the superintendence of Mr. Baily, Mr. 

 Airy, and Dr. Robinson, 



Mr. Baily reports, — That the reduction of stars in the Histoire 

 Celeste has been commenced, and already about 13,000 stars 

 have been reduced at an expense of about 170/. It is presumed 

 that the greater part (if not the whole) of the remainder may be 

 completed in the course of the ensuing year, and it is therefore 

 expedient that the grant of money should be continued. 



On a grant of 500/. made for the purpose of extending the 

 catalogue of the stars of the Royal Astronomical Society, under 

 the direction of Mr. Baily, Mr. Airy, and Dr. Robinson, 



Mr. Baily reports, — That with respect to the extension of the 

 Astronomical Society's catalogue of stars, about one half of the 

 computations are completed in consequence of the liberal grant 

 from the British Association at Liverpool, and about 180/. of 

 that grant has been expended ; the whole of the remainder of 

 the grant will probably be required before the next Meeting of 

 the Association. 



The Committee appointed at Newcastle (in Report for 1838, 

 p. xxiii.) for the purpose of applying to Government for a pro- 

 per place for the deposit of records connected with the mining 

 transactions of Great Britain, reported that a room adjoining 

 the Museum of Economic Geology had been appointed for 

 their reception, which would be placed under the custody of 

 a proper keeper. 



The Committee appointed at Newcastle (in Report for 

 1838, p. xxv.), superintending Inquiries into the Statistics of 

 the Collieries of the Tyne and Wear, presented a notice of the 

 progress of their researches. 



