Sept. 1844] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. xciii 



will be sufficient for the Asiatic Society for the present to receive the hourly and daily 

 means of the instruments for the month. 



Again, with reference to the tides, I send one complete copy of the curves described 

 by the instruments, and the registry to the Hon'ble East India Company's Astronomer, 

 Madras, for transmission through him to the Home Government, another complete copy 

 I forward through the Honorable the Governor of the Straits to the Secretary to the 

 Government of India, (Home Department.) Now if I might be permitted to make a 

 suggestion, it would be to forward the remainder of the tides not yet dispatched, to the 

 Secretary of the Asiatic Society, Calcutta, and those that have been already sent to 

 Bengal to be handed over to him. 



I hope I shall be excused in making these remarks, for it has appeared to me, that 

 the Secretary to the Asiatic Society in calling for complete copies had neither an idea 

 of the enormous additional labour that it would entail on the Observatories, (requiring 

 for the purpose an extra assistant constantly copying,) nor that the whole of the ob- 

 servations would ultimately be published in England. 



I intend to write to the same effect to the Secretary to the Asiatic Society, but I 

 shall defer forwarding any abstracts until 1 have on this subject the opinion of the 



Most Noble the Governor in Council. 



I have, &c. 

 Singapore, 25th April, 1844. (Signed) C. M. Elliot, Lieut. Engineers, 



Superintendent Magnetic Observatory. 

 (A true Copy.) 



(Signed) J. F. Thomas, 



Secretary to Government. 



No. 380. 

 To J. F. Thomas, Esq. Secretary to Government, Fort St. George. 

 Home Department, Marine. 



Sir,— I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 199, dated the 

 6th instant with its enclosure, and to state, that for the reasons assigned by the Superin- 

 tendent of the Magnetic Observatory at Singapore, the Governor General in Council 

 concurs in opinion with the Most Noble the Governor in Council of Fort St. George, 

 that the Asiatic Society at Calcutta should receive, as proposed by Lieut. Elliot, only 

 a copy of the mean results of the Magnetic and Meteorological Observations, instead of 

 copies of the entire observations. The necessary communication on the subject will 

 be made to the Secretary to the Asiatic Society at Calcutta. 



I have, &c. 

 Fort William, the 11th July, 1844. (Signed) T. It. Davidson, 



Qffg. Secy, to the Govt, of India. 

 (True Copies.) 



T. R. Davidson, 

 Qffg. Secy, to the Govt, of India. 



Ordered, that it be explained that the Society, fully sensible of the steady 

 desire of Government to forward its views in all matters of utility, was 



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