XXXVI 
REPORT- 1854. 
rnents with the tenant previous to permission being granted to them to use 
the lands; the Honourable Mr. Gore, the Chief Commissioner, at the same 
time expressing liis anxious desire to afford every facility to the Committee. 
In reply to an application of the Committee, the tenant ofTered the use of 
the land at the rate of £20 per acre. Your Committee, feeling they could 
not make any reply to such a demand, requested their Chairman, in conjunc- ' 
tlon with Mr Hutton, to wait on Mr. Gore, who kindly appointed a day to 
meet the tenant and the Committee at the Observatory. It was subsequently 
arranged that for the present season, viz. until next October, the tenant 
should receive at the rate of £7 lOw. per acre, and for the subsequent year I 
£10 10s. per acre, at which period his present term with the Crown 
expires. 
Two acres of the land have been enclosed with a strong wooden paling pre¬ 
paratory to the erection of a wooden tower, under the superintendence of I 
Mr. De la Rue, for mounting the Huygheuian object-glass, as recommended | 
by the British Association. 
The cost of enclosing the land, the rent to October 1855, as well as the 
erection of the wooden tower, will be chiefly defrayed from funds supplied 
by the Royal Society for the erection of the iluyghenian telescope, from the 
annual Government Grant placed at its disposal: but your Committee earnestly i 
recommend that an immediate application should be made by the Councilof 
the British Association for the future gratuitous use of this small portion of 
the park, which will be found nbsolutelv neeessarv fur mmu nnw r>n fried 
By order „/ n K Committu. 
Jons P. Gassiot, 
Chairman. 
