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REPORT— 1847. 
the 28th. or 30th or 31st, at the same five hours of each dav. Also a cakulslioid 
the wiiJrf/e/e»«;)ero/Bre for each month ; the juoa/i/yo/ratn fallen in cuhiciMio;*^ 
the direction of the mnds at the same hours of each day for ever)’month it the rat. 
The meteorological tables for 1846, from Alten, are not vet arrived in EarW; 
they will be forwarded in the course of the summer by Mr. S. H. Tboaas jfi'a 
according to whose statement the mean height of the barometer inciwR twt 
iKjuator to 36® 13', where the maximum is found. From this point it 
68® 24', where the minimum occurs, and afterwards it increases towardsthef* 
and be informs me that this result agrees very nearly with the meancotactdi^ 
servations made at Alten for the lost nine years. 
A letter of thanks to the President of the British Association fortheiiiT»R** 
of Science: — 
Sir,— 'Ihe members of the Alten Literary and Scientific Society h»«t9^ 
me to return their most sincere thanks to the President and 
Asaociatiop for the Advancement of Science, for their valuable presHit 
the following books lleports of the British Association from 1833 to 
volumes forwarded through Dr. Lee, which arrived in due courseand gooflru^, 
On behalf of the Alten J.iterary and Scientific Society, I have the bouojit**. 
scribe myself. Sir, your most obedient servant, (Signed) J. H,Grewe,AltB» 
Fiumark, 2l8t March, 1840. 
liemarkson the above papers on the advantages to be derived 
ment of a permanent or eveii of a tempomry magnetic and electro-raetwfo*®** 
observatory at Alten in Laj)land. „ 
Altcu is the most northern town on the globe; its latitude being 
and its longitude 23® ± East, that of Christiania being 59® 
10 45_ East. During the French llovolutioti the present king of the tfca 
a lour m Norway and visited Alten j and since hia accession to the 
Mme hrcDch officers have been sent to make scientific observations 
Sweden and Lappmnrk, and they visited Alten and left there some 
and magnetic instrumi-nfs, which since their departure have been pressn-^^ " 
Literary and Scientific Society at Alten. 
Some Norwegian and Swedish officers are now employed under 
the king of Sweden and Norwav, and under the direction of Baron 
fessorZelander of Stockholm, the Astronomer Royal of Sweden, and Mr- 
an officer of the navy, in continuing some observations by triangular 
from tnontekis and Kautokeino towards Alten and Hammerfest and 
in order to ascertain with greater accuracy the latitudes of these 
and of the North Cape, nnd these obaervntions will probably be coropkw 
year 1848 or 1849. 
Owing to the position of Alten and of Hammerfest. which is tlie 
^d their great degree of northern latitude, it wonid be highly 
? ^"'“P^fary magnetic and eleclro-meteoroiogicalob*f^^^i.‘ 
be established there for three or more vears, and it is therefore 
present summer would be a most desirable time for such an object, whibj»^ . 
wepan gorernment is proceeding with Its operations, and whilst there v- 
intelhpnt young men in the seiwice of the Alten Copper Mining Comptfy** ■ r 
leisure hours, to assist in tbeobserr^'^^- 
^e Bmish Association should not feel itself in a position to establish »n« ® .• • 
^ advice wliich could be derived from the 
Alten Mining Company resident in London, it is to be hoped that 
pjvoriunent. or the Swedish Royal Society of Stockholm, might be iviocei v - 
e object should he rccniumeuded bv the British Assuciatiou. . ^<-.2 
Itf.v i vinarka on the nature and origin of the Aurora 
for i ^ published in the volume of the Society * - ■ 
atu-ntion of Sections), might furnish ®hund&« 
vatorv nf in addition to other objects cf f, 
It Dp^ears tw' as observations on refraction at f® 
PP hat several members of this Association are favourable to 
