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Mr. R H. Scott, 



This was successively followed in 1867 by the Second Series, entitled 

 " Researches on Solar Physics, Second Series, Area-measurements 

 of sun-spots observed by Mr. Carrington during the seven years 

 1854-60 inclusive, and deductions therefrom," and in 1868 by 

 Appendix to the second series, " On the Distribution in Heliographic 

 Latitudes of the Sun-spots observed by Carrington." These papers 

 all appeared at Mr. de la Rue's expense, and all bore the names of the 

 same authors. 



Two papers were likewise communicated in 1868 to the Royal 

 Society by these gentlemen. The first is entitled "Researches on 

 Solar Physics, Heliographic Positions, and Areas of Sun-spots observed 

 with the Kew Photoheliograph during the years 1862 and 1863." The 

 second, "Account of some recent observations on Sun-spots made at the 

 Kew Observatory." 



1867. In the Report of the Kew Committee for this year we have 

 a short account of what steps had been taken by Government with 

 reference to Meteorology, ending with the names of the superintending 

 Meteorological Committee, and stating that on the 3rd of January this 

 Committee had appointed Mr. Balfour Stewart as its Secretary, on the 

 understanding that he should, with the concurrence of the Kew Com- 

 mittee of the British Association, retain his present office of Superin- 

 tendent of the Kew Observatory. 



It was also proposed that Kew Observatory should become the 

 Central Observatory, at which all instruments used by or prepared for 

 the several observatories or stations connected with the Meteorological 

 Department should be verified, the entire expense attendant thereon; 

 or any future expense arising through the connexion of the Observa- 

 tory with the Meteorological Department, being paid from the funds 

 supplied by the latter, and not in any way from money subscribed by 

 the British Association. These proposals having been submitted to 

 the Kew Committee, they approved of the Kew Observatory being 

 regarded as the Central Observatory of the Meteorological Office, 

 and of Mr. Stewart's holding the office of Secretary to the Scientific 

 Committee superintending that office. 



In the same year we are informed that the magnetic curves produced 

 at Kew previously to the month of January, 1865, had all been 

 measured and reduced under the direction of General Sabine, by the 

 staff of his office at Woolwich ; and the results of this reduction com- 

 municated by General Sabine to the Royal Society in a series of 

 memoirs. 



In the course of this and the succeeding year the assistants at the 

 six outlying automatic observatories, in connection with the Meteoro- 

 logical Office, Aberdeen, Armagh, Falmouth, Glasgow, Stonyhurst, 

 and Valencia, received their training at Kew, while Mr. Stewart, with 

 the assistance of Mr. Beckley, personally superintended the erection 



