1870.] 



On the Indian Pendulum-observations. 



97 



November 24, 1870. 

 ; General Sir EDWARD SABINE, K.C.B., President, in the Chair. 



In pursuance of the Statutes, notice was given from the Chair of the 

 ensuing Anniversary Meeting, and the list of Officers and Council proposed 

 for election was read as follows : — 



President.— General Sir Edward Sahine, R.A., K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D. 



Treasurer. — William Spottiswoode, Esq., M.A. 



f William Sharpey, M.D., LL.D. 

 Secretaries.— j GeQrge Gabriel Stokeg} Esq>j M A>j D.C.L., LL.D. 



Foreign Secretary. — Prof. William Hallowes Miller, M.A., LL.D. 

 Other Members of the Council. — George Burrows, M.D. ; Heinrich 

 Debus, Esq., Ph.D. ; Prof. Peter Martin Duncan, M.B. ; Sir Philip deM. 

 Grey-Egerton, Bart.; Prof. George Carey Foster, B.A.; Francis Galton, 

 Esq. ; John Peter Gassiot, Esq., D.C.L. ; Joseph Dalton Hooker, C.B., 

 M.D.'; William Huggins, Esq., D.C.L., LL.D.; Prof. George M.Humphry, 

 M.D. ; John Gwyn Jeffreys, Esq. ; Sir John Lubbock, Bart. ; Charles 

 William Siemens, Esq., D.C.L.; Prof. Henry J. Stephen Smith, M.A. ; 

 Prof. John Tyndall, LL.D. ; Prof. Alexander W. Williamson, Ph.D. 



Pursuant to notice given at the last Meeting, Sir John Rennie proposed 

 and General Boileau seconded His Grace the Duke of Sutherland for elec- 

 tion and immediate ballot. 



The ballot having been taken, the Duke of Sutherland was declared 

 duly elected. 



Pursuant to notice given at the last Meeting, Anders Jons Angstrom, of 

 Upsala, and Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau, of Ghent, were ballotted 

 for and elected Foreign Members of the Society. 



The following communications were read : — 



I. u Communication from the Secretary of State for India relative 

 to Pendulum Observations now in progress in India in connexion 

 with the Great Trigonometrical Survey under the Superinten- 

 dence of Colonel J. T. Walker, R.E., F.R.S." Read by order 

 of the President and Council, 



India Office, S.W., 3rd October, 1870. 



Sir, — I am directed by the Secretary of State for India to transmit to 

 you, for the information of the President and Council of the Royal Society, 

 the enclosed copy of a letter from Colonel Walker, the Superintendent of 

 the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, on the pendulum-observations 

 that have been carried on since 1805 by Captain Basevi, together with a 

 note, tabulated results, and a Map of India showing the pendulum-stations. 



The Duke of Argyll will be obliged if, in accordance with Colonel 

 Walker's wish, the President and Council would be so good as to furnish 



