RESEARCHES IN SCIENCE. 
XiX 
Recommendations adopted by the General Committee at the 
Oxford Meeting in June 1847. 
htoh'ing Applications to Government and Public Intlitutions. 
That an application be made to the Lords Comtnissioners of the Admiralty, 
to appropriate a suitable vessel for the purpose of an invesligatiop of iho 
Phxnomtna of the I'ides. 
That application be made to the Court of Directors of the Himoumble 
East India Company, to carry into regular and continued operation the Tide 
Observations, which it is understood they have already ordered to be in.i 1> : 
and to direct the nature and extent of these observations to be rejmru d to 
the Brhish Association, with a view (o dieir being discussed and reducwl, 
and connected with any others which have been made or may be made in 
other seas. 
The British Association feels deeply the great importance of instituting 
a direct comparison, or a comparison with as few intermediate *tep» as p»*»* 
sible, between die standards of Jength used in the survey of the great KuMian 
•and Swedish Arc of Meridian now in progress under the direction of 
lessor Struve and the scientific men of Sweden and Norway, uui that u»<d 
great Indian Arc, under the authority of iIm: Honour- 
abe East India Company, by Lt. Col. Everest, of which an account hat 
lately been published : and the Association, in the full confidence that every 
cilil) will be given by the Court of Directors for effecting this rompari*i»i«, 
anti tliat they will, if possible, consent to an arrangement by which the two 
tw ards may be brought together, and thus directly compared, instruct! the 
ouncij, that an uppjication be made to the Honourable Court of Dirccuwv 
0 le East India Company, to grant tlio needful facility for etfcrtiiMr thu 
comparison. ® j 
J he General Committee, having had tlie satisf.iction to receive amongit 
e eminent Foreign Guests of the British Association at Oxford, Prof* •w>f« 
Christiania, and Profewor Nilsson of Stochlmlm, 
;^t to request those gentlemen, to convey to iIk di*ti..- 
1 Societies with which in their own countries they arc rc- 
I conneetef}^ the importance which the British Assoriatiou a!ttcJi«-v 
possible, of a Magnetical and Mctcorohigtcal 
seiPttr ^ as a station where the phmnomcna of tliose 
thp ftW.. ■ ^ most advantageously stmlicd ; and also ilicir hope, that 
indcfaiiJ '''hlcb have been carried on for some yean past with such 
roavhe n y., may lie continued, .ind that the obtcrvai*- ns 
convenient early a date as from circumstances may b« found 
^^commendations not involving Grants of Money. 
ExDpriin!^!* ^^ebert Hunt be requested toconimuc the 
TI rn a'^V'* Actinograp], at Kcw. 
developed in Che^‘* requested to prepare a Report on ilu’ I Icit 
requested to continue his investigations on ibe cor- 
That Dr S fl ^ 
analvsic be requested to report upon the cht inical 
analysis of Air and Water of Populous Towns. ^ 
