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nient would be heavy ; but at any rate I feel certain, that if it were 

 carried into successful operation, the expenses would be covered a 

 thousand fold by the saving to life and property that it would 

 occasion. To enter at present into further details, would I think be 

 premature ; I therefore" leave the matter for the Institute either to 

 take up or to reject. 



REPORT OE THE COMMITTEE ON PROEESSOR KING- 

 STON'S PLAN EOR PREDICTING STORMS. 



Head before the Canadian Institute, IMh March, 1857. 



The Committee of the Council of the Canadian Institute, to 

 whom was referred Professor Kingston's paper on the application 

 of the Electric Telegraph, in giving intimation of storms ocurring at 

 different localities, present the following Report : 



The Committee consisted of Baron de Rottenburg, Professor 

 Croft, and Professor Cherriman -, in addition to whom they had the 

 assistance of Professor Kingston, and of Mr. Alexander, telegraph 

 operator. 



The Committee recommend that Professor Kingston's paper be 

 printed, and a letter be addressed, with a copy of the paper, to the 

 several Boards of Trade and Insurance Offices in the Province, with 

 a view of securing their co-operation in carrying out the objects the 

 Professor has in view ; and suggesting to these bodies the ad- 

 visability of their entering into some agreement with the several 

 Telegraph Companies, to defray the expenses of forwarding the 

 necessary telegraphic messages from one station to another, and 

 also to the magnetic observatory at Toronto ; and whenever 

 these arrangements shall be completed, that a letter be addressed to 

 the Secretary of the Province, to obtain for the Magnetic Observa- 

 tory the services of an additional assistant, a3 a telegraphic operator, 

 and that authority shall also be demanded to defray the expenses of 

 laying down wires from the observatory to the telegraph office. 



The telegraph stations which appear to the Committee to be 

 favourably situated for the transmission of notices of storms which 

 may occur in the localities, or for forwarding such notices from 

 other places are as follows, viz : 



