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ORDNANCE SURVEY. 



Resolved, — That a Committee be appointed to inquire bow far, in tbe 

 future progress of the Ordnance Survey, tbe several metalliferous and 

 coal-mining districts could be represented on a larger scale. Tbe Com- 

 mittee to consist of Mr. Greenough, Mr. Griffith, Mr. De la Beche, and 

 Major Portlock. 



MINING RECORDS. 



Resolved,— 1. Tbat it is the opinion of this Meeting, that, with a view 

 to prevent the loss of life and of property which must inevitably ensue 

 from the want of accurate mining records, it is a matter of national im- 

 portance that a depository should be established for preserving such 

 records of subterranean operations in collieries and other mining districts. 



2. That a Committee be appointed to draw up a Memorial and to 

 communicate with the Government in the name of the British Associa- 

 tion, respecting the most effectual method of carrying the above resolu- 

 tion into effect. 



3. That the Committee consist of the following gentlemen, with 

 power to add to their number ; The Marquis of Northampton, Sir 

 Charles Lemon, Sir Philip Egerton, John Vivian, Esq., Davis G. Gil- 

 bert, Esq., J. S. Enys, Esq., W. L. Dillwyn, the President of the Geo- 

 logical Section of the British Association, the President for the time 

 being of the Geological Society of London, the Professors of Geology 

 at Oxford, Cambridge, London, and Durham, H. T. De la Beche, Esq., 

 John Taylor, Esq., John Buddie, Esq., Thomas Sopwith, Esq. 



Specific Researches in Science involving Gratits of Money. 



The following new Recommendations were adopted by the General 

 Committee. 



That it is desirable that the meteorological observations made at the 

 equinoxes and solstices, agreeably to the recommendations of Sir John 

 Herschel, Bart., should be collected together, as far as is practicable, and 

 reduced to an uniform mode of expression, so that comparisons may be 

 made of the same, with a view of deducing results that may lead to the 

 improvement and elucidation of meteorology. 



