REPORT- 1854. 
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“ Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, 3rd June, 1854. 
“ Dear Sir, —In acknowledging your favour of yesterday's date, I have 
to request that you will convey my thanks to the Kcw Committee of the 
British Association for that satisfactory communication, and that I am glad 
to learn that a marine barometer has at length been constructed which is 
likely to fulfil so many useful conditions. 
“ In order to carry into immediate execution the suggestions of the Kew 
Committee, I would beg the favour of your directing Mr. Adie to supply 
this office, without delay, with one of those instruments. 
“ I have the honour to be. Sir, 
“ Your most obedient Servant, 
D „ . . y , . (Signed) “ F. Beaufort, 
John P. Gassiot, Esq., Chairman of Kcw Committee* •* Jlv(lrogn»i>l>er.” 
Uapham Common. ' * 0 r 
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„ “ Office of Committee of Prirv Council for Trade: 
Marine Depcrtmaot, &k Iona, 1 
for Trad p Lords of the Committee of Privy Council 
of the pattern v,fn° W ^ 1 * e rece ‘P t your letter of the 2nd instant, and 
tbVBriS t r Up °, n r llicl> Kl " Observatory Committee ol 
. ‘ I am rn " aV<! <l0Ci ‘ ll " J “ “«» >PP)t00bb for marine otoem- 
arrangement™|, »•“ My Lor,Is', n il av.il tlmnselves of the 
8 c.veraTItrm"ento,a k e™ 0 ^""“ e „ e ha ? 1 b «" 6U *<’° d “ «o make with the 
for a supply. as soon as the y are prepared to give the order 
“ I am, Sir, 
“ J. p. Gassiot, Esq " “ Your obed *ent Servant, 
4 ' “T. H. Farrer." 
ciation TO Tn E P MEEm?!I! RY Committee of the British Asso 
T he Parlia LD AT Liverpool in September 1S54. 
The subjects to which*tfuf nH«nt* Ve bonour to report as follows:— 
--heir Iast^ report, are— t,0n tlie Committee has been directed 
2nd. The conditions U ” provement Navigation. 
3rt A 13 ar ° n ° W be8t °' Ved 00 men ° f 
i)UDm at °o ° J sc ‘ ence on tlie^nue^H * iave commenced with various eminent 
f r^ taF06itiUn “ f societie. in some cent,, 
The Cl? ° 
... Chairman and Mr tt 
Mr. Heywood k | ent at,d OfflceJTof'^ it l tervie ™ with the President, 
House ^C d n t»° n Sev eral acj^ Trade oa "•» subject, and 
reporting that Cr, ° S t,1Grco11 ; and the r 3 addressed some remarks to the 
of Trade, wi^ h °;^®ent have now estSlT w tCCbaVe ^ pleasure in 
dations of the R v,Gw of carrying out : a Ied a department in the Board 
°yal Society and • r ever .V particular the recommen- 
3 Committee, in reference to this 
