xoii Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [Sept. 1844. 



No. 51. 

 To J. F. Thomas, Esq. Secy, to Govt. Fort St. George. 

 Home Department, Marine. 



Sir,— I am directed to transmit the accompanying copy of a letter from the Secre- 

 tary to the Asiatic Society, and to request, that you will, with the permission of the 

 Most Noble the Governor in Council of Fort St. George, issue the necessary orders to 

 cause that Society to be furnished direct with the information therein required. 



1 have, &c. 

 (Signed) T. R. Davidson, 



Fort William, the 22d July, 1843. Offg. Secy, to the Govt, of India. 



The same to the Governments of Bengal and Bombay. 



No. 199. 

 From J. F. Thomas, Esq. Secy, to Govt, of Fort St. George, to the Secy, to Govt. 



of India, dated 6th July, 1844. 

 Home Department. 



Sir,— With reference to Mr. Secretary Davidson's letter of the 22d July, 1843, I 

 am directed to forward copy of one from Lieutenant Elliot at Singapore, under date 

 25th April last. As it would appear, that Lieutenant Elliot's establishment is not 

 equal to any extra labour, and that the whole of the observations required by the Asia- 

 tic Society will, " soon be published in England," the Most Noble the Governor in 

 Council, submits for the consideration of the Government of India, that the Asiatic 

 Society should for the present receive, as proposed by Lieutenant Elliot, only a copy 

 of the mean results, and that instructions to this effect be issued. 



I have, &c. 



(Signed) J.F.Thomas, 



Fort St. George, 6th July, 1844. Secy, to Govt. Military Department. 



No. 292. 

 To the Military Secretary to Government, Fort St. George. 



Sir,— In compliance with the Extract of the Minutes of Consultation of the 29th of 

 August 1843, I have written to the Surveyor General of India, to forward all the copies 

 of Magnetic and Meteorological Observations in his possession to the Secretary of the 

 Asiatic Society, Calcutta. I hope that mean results will be considered sufficient for the 

 present, since all the observations which are now sent to the Royal Society, will very 

 soon be published. If I were to send complete copies of the Observations that I have 

 the honor through you to send to the Hon'ble East India Company, the work would be 

 just doubled, and it is as much as I can do with the aid of four assistants at the Obser- 

 vatory to complete the report without falling into arrears. 



This will be understood if 1 just give an outline of the work at the Observatory: 12 

 instruments are observed every hour in the twenty-four, and registered in a rough 

 observation book, from which they are entered in the day book, then abstracted in a 

 book for the purpose, and finally fresh sheets are copied out, which are forwarded 

 through you to the Hon'ble East India Company. Besides this, extra observations, 

 the corrections of all the instruments, absolute determinations, the diurnal and hourly 

 march of the instruments registered in curves ; the anemometer papers and copies of 

 our observations to all the Indian observatories, and I think it will be allowed that it 



