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Report of the Kew Committee. 



In consequence of a case of illness of a contagions nature having 

 occurred in the care-taker's family, work was almost suspended in the 

 Observatory for some days in May, but the self -registering instruments 

 were maintained in action, so that no loss of records took place during 

 the time. 



Visitors. — The Observatory has been honoured by the presence 

 during the year of numerous visitors, many of whom were foreigners. 



