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with power to add to their number, for the purpose of drawing up plans 

 of Scientific co-operation, &c. &c, relating to the subject, and reporting 

 to the Association. 



9. That the sum of 400/. be placed at the disposal of the above-named 

 Committee, for the purposes abo? r e mentioned.* 



ASTRONOMY. 



Sir J. Herschel and Mr. Baily were requested to make application to 

 Government for increase in the instrumental power of the Royal Obser- 

 vatory at the Cape of Good Hope, and the addition of at least one as- 

 sistant to that establishment. 



SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES IN INDIA. 



Resolved, — I. That the British Association regard the measurement of 

 an arc of longitude in India comparable in extent to the meridional arc 

 already measured in that country, as a most important contribution to 

 other facts illustrative of the earth's true figure, and, by a necessary con- 

 sequence, to the progress of astronomy. 



2. That the verification and comparison of the standards of the Indian 

 and English surveys, as compared with the proposed Parliamentary 

 standard, is indispensable to the correct knowledge of the meridional 

 and parallel arcs. 



3. That pendulum observations at the principal elevations, or conti« 

 guous plains, and on the sea-coasts, if possible, on the same parallels of 

 latitude, will afford results of great value to physical science. 



4. That observations for the determination of the Laws of Refraction 

 in the elevated regions of the Himalayas, and at the Observatories of 

 Madras and Bombay, will be a most important service to science. 



5. That it is highly desirable also that magnetical observations should 

 be made in India similar to those which are carrying on in other parts 

 of the world, and which are justly regarded with so much interest. 



6. That a topographical map of India, upon a large scale, accompanied 

 by statistical and geological information, would be highly desirable. t 



* The application to Government on this suhject has been successful, the command of 

 an expedition to the Antarctic regions being entrusted to Captain J. Q. Ross. 



+ These Resolutions have been submitted to the consideration of the Directors of the 

 East India Company ; and, in particular, the recommendation for magnetical observations 

 been promptly acceded to. 



