REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 
XVll 
and that copies will lio on the table of the General Committee when this 
report is presented. The Council, having requested tlic opinion nf the Com* 
inittee for superintending the publication as to the best mode of rlistrilnitioii 
and sale oftbese catalogues, has received from Sir J. 1'. W. Ilerscliel, Chair* 
man of the Committee, tlie following communication, and has adopted the 
recommendations contained therein. 
“ Cambridar, Feb. SA, ia47. 
“After mature consideration of the best mode of publication of the Cata¬ 
logues of Lalande and Lacaille, Mr. Stratford, the Asironomer Uoyat and 
myself, are agreed that it will be the best course for the British Associattun 
to publish them in the usual manner,at a price of £I Is. fur die Caialt^ue 
of X.alan(le, and 5s. for that of Lacaille; and, not troubling the Govern* 
ment further on the subject dran to report their readiness for puhliraiicm, :.nd 
die total absorption of the grant, to acknowledge the liberality of tht- aid 
given, and to inquire how many copies the Government would ilcviri to have 
Ibr ofHciul distribution beyond those hereafter inontioned for the public 
observatories, and to request their sanction fur the disjmsal of the n-tnaiDdcr 
at die reduced prices above n.amed. 
“ We are decidetl in recomruendaig that copies should be presented to the 
Britiah and l^ast Indian public astrunomical observatories, but that no dis¬ 
tribution should take place to private indivitltials beyond the pres. copu« in 
sheets as printed off, whidi have passed into the hands of the Conimiitee in 
the progress of the work for remark or correction. 
“J. F. W. I1CR^C•IIIU" 
'*PuhUc Aslrommkal Observatories to which Catalogues arc propowi/ to be 
incscnled. 
“Royal Observatory Greenwich, Dublin, Edinburgh, Cape of Gooil Hope. 
Observatories of Cambridge, Oxford, Arnuigli, Glasgow, Liverpool, Durliani. 
The H.E.I. Company’s Observatories at Madras and Bombay.” 
3. Tlie Ceuucil had added to the list of Corresponding Member* of the 
British Association the names of the following gentlemen: —Mon*. Boutigny 
d Evreux, Dr. Eisenlohr, I’rof. Forclibainmer, Baron de Sclys-Longchnnijw, 
Prof. Alatteucci, Prof, von Midduiidorf, Prof. II. Rose, and Dr. Sviiiberg. 
4. Doubts having been expressed whether Swanseu, from whence an invi¬ 
tation for the year 1848 was presented at Southampton, possewes suflicii'tu 
aceorainodation to receive convcniemly a meeting of the British Association, 
the Council requested Mr. Phillips to visit Swansea for the purpose of rs.a- 
mming and reporting on its means of public and private actommodaikm, and 
las received from him the following communication : — 
. “ London, April 8, !*■ 17. 
,. I he inquiry which you requested me to make, as to the accommodation 
w iiclj tnij^lii be found in Swansea for a Meeting of the Briiith .Association, 
iss been rt-udered conipRi aiivcly easy, and capable of an accnrite answer, 
y the excellent arrangt-nient of Mr. Grove and the zealous assisunce of hi* 
neut s at SwTOsea, 'i'he town had been, in fact, surveyed, and the view * of 
le prinapal inhabitants and neighbouring residents ascertained, befor* iny 
arnraJ tliere in the beginning of April. 
1 was, 111 consequence, enabled, in a few days, to confirm entirely the 
expectations ot Mr. Grove and hia friends, that nuilable accominodai^m for 
«te public, purpose* of ihc As.sociation could be found in the Koyal In*mu. 
Hun, the Assembly Rooms, tlic 'I'own Hall, Theatre, and certain large school¬ 
rooms , and that the situation of these buildings is in general such m to 
