DESIDERATA^ ETC. XXXlll 
relative to the four collectorates of the Deccan; subject to the 
Bombay Government. 
2. That Professor Jones be requested to endeavour to obtain 
permission to examine the statistical records understood to exist 
in great number in the archives of the India House; and to pre¬ 
pare an account of the nature and extent of them*. 
3. That Mr. Taylor be requested to draw up a series of ques¬ 
tions upon the condition and habits of the mining population of 
Cornwall and Wales; with a view to obtain a complete account 
of the statistics of that class. 
4. That Dr. Chawnor be requested to furnish to the Statisti¬ 
cal Section of the British Association a return of the inquisi¬ 
tions taken before the Coroners cf the county of Nottingham and 
elsewhere within his neighbourhood; and that it would be highly 
desirable to have similar returns from all the counties of En¬ 
gland during the seven years ending 1834; and that Mr. Hals- 
well be requested to draw up a form in which to make this 
record; and to obtain for the Association the returns from as 
large a number of districts as may be in his power. 
5. That Mr. Halswell be requested to furnish returns of the 
Hanwell Lunatic Asylum since its commencement. 
6. That inquiries into the state of education upon the plan 
pursued by the Statistical Society of Manchester would afford 
a very useful addition to statistical knowledge; and that it be 
recommended that such inquiries be pursued in other towns and 
districts; and the results arranged, for the sake of uniformity, 
under the same heads as those adopted by the Manchester 
Societyf. 
DIRECTIONS FOR OBSERVING THE TIDES. 
Observations of tides along the coasts of Great Britain and 
Ireland will be valuable, both in the construction of more ac¬ 
curate tide-tables, and as data toward the perfection of the 
theory of tides. 
Observations of the tides should record particularly,— 
The time in hours and minutes, and height of high-water 
daily, or, if convenient, every tide. 
The time and height of low- water. 
* Professor Jones reported to the Committee that, in pursuance of this re¬ 
commendation, he had applied for access to the archives of the East India 
Company, and that, with their accustomed liberality, they had afforded him 
every facility for prosecuting his researches. 
f Reports , vol. iv., Notices, p. 122, infra. 
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