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Report of the Keiv Observatory Committee for the Year 

 ending December 31, 1896. 



The operations of The Kew Observatory, in the Old Deer Park, 

 Richmond, Surrey, are controlled by the Kew Observatory Committee, 

 which is constituted as follows : — 



Captain W. de W. Abney, C.B., 

 R.E. 



Prof. W. G. Adams. • 

 Captain B. W. Creak, R.rT. 

 Prof. G. C. Foster. 

 Prof. J. Perry. 

 The Earl of Rosse, K.P. 



Mr. F. Galton, Chairman. 



Prof. A. W. Riicker. 

 Mr. R. EL Scott. 

 Mr. W. 1ST. Shaw. 

 Lieutenant- General R. Strachey, 

 C.S.I. 



Rear Admiral W. J. L. Wharton. 

 C.B. 



On February 16 the Committee sustained a severe loss by the death 

 of General J. T. Walker, C.B., who had been a member and constant 

 attendant of the Committee during ten years, and whose valuable 

 assistance was of special importance to them in furthering pendulum 

 experiments made for geodetic purposes. 



The vacancy on the Committee thus occasioned was filled by the 

 appointment of Dr. John Perry, Professor of Mechanics and Mathe- 

 matics in the Royal College of Science, South Kensington. 



The work at the Observatory may be considered under the fol- 

 lowing heads: — 



1st. Magnetic observations. 

 2nd. Meteorological observations. 

 3rd. Solar observations. 



4th. Experimental, in connexion with any of the departments'. 



5th. Verification of instruments. 



6th. Rating of Watches and Marine Chronometers, 



7th. Miscellaneous. 



