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RECOMMENDATIONS 
OF 
THE SUB-COMMITTEES. 
Committee of Mathematical and Physical Science. 
Mathematics. 
The Committee recommend that the Vice-President of the 
Association residing at Cambridge be requested to use his 
utmost efforts to procure, from some competent individual, a 
Report to the next Meeting on the progress of Mathematical 
Science. 
Astronomy. 
That Professor Airy be requested to favour the Association 
with a Report on the state and progress of Physical Astronomy, 
together w T ith such remarks on the improvements of Practical 
Astronomy, as he may deem it useful to add. 
Theory of Tides. 
That J. W. Lubbock, Esq. be requested to furnish a state¬ 
ment of the means which we possess, or which we want, for 
forming accurate tables for calculating the time and height of 
High-Water at a given place. 
Meteorology. 
That James D. Forbes, Esq. be requested to draw up a 
Report for the next Meeting, on the present state of Meteoro¬ 
logical Science. 
The Committee, considering that the science of Meteorology 
is in more want, than perhaps any other, of that systematic 
direction which it is one great object of the Association to give, 
has thought it advisable to propose the following points for in¬ 
vestigation. 
