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deem expedient, and generally for carrying out the objects of the 

 Trust as may be from time to time determined by the Committee. 



"An annual statement of receipts and expenditure is to be prepared 

 by the Committee with any report that the Committee may from 

 time to time deem to be desirable, and the same are to be presented 

 to the Royal Society, and the report is to be published in the 

 Proceedings of the Royal Society, or in such other form as the Council 

 may from time to time direct. 



" If, by reason of the Kew Observatory, or any other such equivalent 

 Observatory being at any time discontinued, the observations should 

 cease to be recorded, and the investigations cease to be made for (say) 

 twelve consecutive months, the Trust Funds, with all accumulations 

 (if any), are to be paid over to the person who shall, for the time 

 being, be, de facto, the Treasurer of the London Middle-Class School 

 incorporated by Royal Charter, dated 12th of June, 1866, by the 

 name of "the Corporation for Middle-Class Education in the Metro- 

 polis and suburbs thereof," to the intent that the same maybe applied 

 for the use and benefit of that Corporation as it may think fit and as 

 a part of its general funds, and the receipt of such officer is to be a 

 sufficient discharge to the persons paying over the same. 



" Power to the Royal Society to enlarge such period of twelve months 

 for a further period of not exceeding (say) two years, in order to give 

 time for obtaining a site and constructing a new Observatory, with 

 power to apply the current income, and any accumulations thereof, in 

 aid of those purposes. 



"Also, give power to the Royal Society to direct some other charitable 

 disposition of the Trust Fund, in case, at the time of the failure of 

 the Trust as to the Observatory, the London Middle-Class School 

 shall have ceased to exist as a corporation.' 



The Deed of Trust was duly prepared and submitted, and was sealed 

 with the corporate seal of the Society on the 29th of June, 1871. 



The Kew Committee of the Royal Society w T as at once appointed, 

 and consisted of the then existing Members of. the Meteorological 

 Committee of the Royal Society. 



The Observatory was handed over to the Society by the British 

 Association at its Edinburgh Meeting. 



Mr. Samuel Jeffery, formerly in charge of the Magnetic Observatory 

 at Hobarton, was then appointed Superintendent, while Mr. R. H. Scott 

 undertook the duties of Honorary Secretary to the Committee, 

 which he continued to discharge for six years until 1877, by which 

 time the future success of the undertaking was fully secured. 



Mr. Jeffery held the office of Superintendent until February, 1876, 

 when he was succeeded by Mr. G. M. Whipple, B.Sc, who, as appears 

 from the preceding pages, had been connected with the Observatory 

 for eighteen years. 



