Edward Forbes was then in the localities referred to, and willing, if requested, to prosecute the researches, and furnish the report in question-the committee passed the following resolution:-"That Mr. Edward Forbes be requested to draw up, for the British Association, a report on the radiata and mollusca of the Ægean and Red Seas, with special reference to the relation of the recent genera and species of those which have hitherto been supposed to exist only in a fossil state." With regard to the grant of £60, which it had been the intention of the sectional committee to have recommended, the council were of opinion that the exigency would be provided for in the least exceptionable manner by requesting the treasurer to place that sum at Mr. Forbes's disposal, on the guarantee of individual members of the council that the amount should be made good by private subscription among themselves, in the event of that grant failing to pass the committee of recommendations or the general committee, when it should be brought forward at Manchester.

2. With the view of securing early attention to an important subject, the council requested the following gentlemen, who were stated as willing to act together for the purpose, to consider the rules by which the nomenclature of zoology might be established on a uniform and permanent basis, and to report thereon to section D, at the meeting at Manchester:-Mr. Darwin, Professor Henslow, Rev. N. Jenyns, Mr. Ogilvy, Mr. J. Phillips, Dr. Richardson, Mr. Strickland, and Mr. Westwood.

3. The council requested Dr. Lamont, of Munich, corresponding member of the British Association, to draw up a report upon the system of meteorological observations commenced in Germany, the report to be presented at the present meeting.

4. The council have added the names of Dr. Ritter, of Berlin; Professor Boguslawski, of Breslaw, and Professor Wartman, of Lausanne, to the list of corresponding members of the British As

sociation.

5. The council have considered the proposition referred to them by the general committees for admitting to the meetings the children of members at the reduced price of one pound per ticket, but from information which has come before them during the preparations for the present meeting, they have been led to believe, that instead of the more limited plan for the accommodation of a few young persons, an arrangement might be preferable by which individuals generally, of all ages, are likely to derive benefit from, or give assistance in, the sectional meetings, who may be allowed to attend those meetings only on the nomination of a member, paying for such privilege £1, and receiving an appropriate ticket, distinct from that of the members. The council, therefore, recommend to the general committee the expediency of permitting this plan to be put in operation provisionally for the present week, and that the propriety of its being continued as a rule of the association be determined by the experience of its working on the present occasion.

6. The time allotted for the sitting of the sections having been found at several of the later meetings insufficient in the case of some of the sections, for due attention to be given to various papers and subjects brought before them, and the useful discussions arising thereon having been necessarily, and sometimes very unsatisfactorily, contracted in consequence, the council have been led to suggest the expediency of any particular section so circumstanced holding an evening meeting by adjournment. By an occasional recourse to such a practice, the council are of opinion that the very important purposes of the sectional meetings may be materially furthered, without trenching unduly on the opportunities, also extremely valuable, of conversational intercourse amongst the members of the assembly generally. In cases also where the subject to be brought forward is of interest to a wider circle than that of the section to which it more particularly belongs, such evening meetings would afford to the members of other sections the opportunity of being present without interfering with their attendance at their own section.

Should this suggestion be sanctioned by the approval of the general committee, the council are of opinion that such general meetings might be arranged without difficulty by the presidents of sections, acting conjointly with the officers of the association.

7. It has been notified to the council, that a deputation has been appointed to present to the British Association, at Manchester, an invitation to hold the meeting of 1843 at York; and that a deputation would also attend, on the part of the citizens of Cork, to invite the association to hold the meeting of 1843 in that city.

The council had been informed that on a proper application to her Majesty, the Queen might be graciously pleased to place at the disposal of the British Association, to be used for scientific purposes, the building in Richmond Park, formerly occupied as the Royal Observatory, but recently dismantled; and deeming that the possession of that building might materially promote the objects of the association, by the facilities which it would afford for the prosecution of experimental inquiries in the physical sciences, for which its locality is peculiarly suitable, as a place of reception for instruments and apparatus, for which grants might have been, and might hereafter be made by the British Association, and which, for general and special reasons, it may be desirable to place in it for use or preservation also as a depository for the books or other property of the association required the president and general secretaries to take the necessary steps for securing this important advantage for the association. The building has, in consequence, been granted, and is now in the possession of the trustees. (Applause.)

The association hope that this proceeding will meet the approbation of the general committee, and that the thanks of the Association may be conveyed to the Queen, through the Earl of Lincoln, for this instance of her Majesty's gracious favour to the British Associa tion for the Advancement of Science. (Applause.)

On the motion of the Rev. Wm. Scoresby, D.D., the report was received, and ordered to be entered on the minutes of the general committee.

R. I. Murchison, Esq., F.R.S., moved the following resolution: "That the Earl of Lincoln be requested to convey to her Majesty the Queen, the dutiful and grateful thanks of the British Association, for her Majesty's gracious patronage and encouragement of science, in placing the Royal Observatory at Kew at the disposal of the British Association for the prosecution of scientific researches." Having been one of the deputation who waited upon her Majesty's government when the application was made, he must say that they showed extreme willingness to advance the objects of the British Association. The building was in such a condition that it would not require repairing for many years. The exact purposes to which it would be applied were not yet decided, but the subject would undergo a careful consideration in the committee of recommendations.

The Marquis of Northampton seconded the motion, observing that the granting of the building for the use of the British Association, was a proof that it was the desire of her Majesty, as well as the desire of the government, to promote the interests of science. The resolution then passed.

On the motion of John Taylor, Esq., F.R.S., the arrangement suggested by the council as to the distribution of tickets admitting persons to the sectional meetings only, on payment of £1 each, was approved.

The following list of sectional officers and committees of sections was then adopted, with the understanding that the committees were to have the power of adding to their numbers those members of the association whose assistance they might desire :

SECTION A.-MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE.

President: The Very Rev. G. Peacock, D.D., F.R.S., Dean of

Ely.

Vice-Presidents: Sir D. Brewster, K.H., F.R.S.; Sir T. M. Brisbane, K.C.B., F.R.S.; Rev. Professor Lloyd, F.R.S.; Sir W. Hamilton.

Secretaries: Professor Stevelly, A.M.; Rev. W. Scoresby, F.R.S.; Professor M'Cullagh, M.R.I.A.

Committee: The Earl of Rosse, Professor Bessel, Professor Erman, Colonel Sabine, Rev. W. Whewell, J. Phillips, Sir J. F. W. Herschel, S. E. Cottam, W. Snow Harris, Professor Frisiani; Professor Braschmann, of Moscow; Professor Jacobi, of Königsberg.

SECTION B.-CHEMISTRY AND MINERALOGY.

President John Dalton, D.C.L., F.R.S.

Vice-Presidents: Professor T. Graham F.R.S.; Rev. W. V. Harcourt, F.R.S.; Michael Faraday, F.R.S.; C. Henry, M.D., F.R.S.

Secretaries: Dr. Lyon Playfair, Robert Hunt, John Graham. Committee: Wm. West, John Davies, H. C. Campbell, H. H. Watson, P. Clare, Alfred Binyon, Dr. Daubeny, H. E. Solly, Professor Nuttall, of Philadelphia.

SECTION C.-GEOLOGY AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.

President R. I. Murchison, F.R.S., &c., Pres. G.S.

Vice-Presidents: Sir H. T. Delabeche, F.R.S., F.G.S.; Rev. W. Buckland, D.D., F.R.S., F.G.S.; Rev. A. Sedgwick, F.R.S., F.G.S.; R. Griffith, F.R.S.

Secretaries: H. E. Strickland, F.G.S.; G. Lloyd, M.D., F.G.S.; E. Binney, Sec. Manch. Geol. Soc.; R. Hutton, F.G.S.

Committee Professor Owen, F.R.S., F.G.S.; John Phillips, F.R.S., F.G.S.; the Earl of Enniskillen, F.G.S.; M. Adolphe Erman; Count A. Von Keyserling; Dr. Dieffenbach; Mr. Schoolcraft, U.S., Hon. Mem. G.S.; J. Bateman; Dr. Black; H. Ormerod, F.G.S.; John Taylor, F.R.S., F.G.S.; W. C. Williamson; W. Gray, jun., F.G.S.; Rev. T. Egerton, F.G.S.; John Hawkshaw, F.G.S.; James Bryce, F.G.S.; H. C. Campbell; Elias Hall; Matthew Dawes, F.G.S.; Rev. D. Williams, F.G.S.; J. B. Ibbotson, F.G.S.

SECTION D.-ZOOLOGY AMD BOTANY.

President: The Hon. and Very Rev. Wm. Herbert, LL.D., F.L.S., Dean of Manchester.

Vice-Presidents: John Richardson, M.D., F.R.S.; John Moore, F.L.S.; Sir William Jardine, Bart., F.R.S.E.; The Bishop of Norwich, P.L.S.

Secretaries: Edwin Lankester, M.D., F.R.S.; Robert Paterson, F.L.S.; J. A. Turner.

Committee: J. F. Royle, M.D., G. T. Fox, H. E. Strickland, Professor Owen, Professor Henslow, John Blackwall, Captain Brown, Dr. Daubeney, John E. Gray, Richard Taylor, Sec. L.S.

SECTION E.-MEDICAL SCIENCE.

President: Edward Holme, M.D., F.L.S.

Vice-Presidents: James Lomas Bardsley, M.D.; C. B. Williams,

M.D.

Secretaries: Dr. Sargent and Dr. Chaytor.

Committee: Dr. Fleming, Dr. Lyon, Dr. D. Hulme, W. J. Wilson, T. Turner, J. A. Ransome, Dr. Roget, Dr. Chaytor.

SECTION F.-STATISTICS.

President: George William Wood, M.P., F.L.S.

Vice-Presidents: Lieut. Colonel Sykes, Henry Hallam, F.R.S.; Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., F.R.S.; G. R. Porter.

Secretaries: Rev. R. Luney, M.A., G. W. Ormerod, William Cook Taylor, LL.D.

Committee Marchese Torrigiani, Dr. Alison, His Excellency Edward Everett, John Roberton, Wm. Felkin, William Langton, P. M. James, J. Heywood, F.R.S., R. H. Greg, G. Webb Hall, Samuel Turner, J. N. Walker, H. I. Porter, F.S.S.

SECTION G.-MECHANICAL SCIENCE.

President: Rev. Professor Willis, M.A., F.R.S., &c., &c. Vice-Presidents: William Fairbairn, C.E.; Eaton Hodgkinson, F.R.S.; Sir M. I. Brunel, F.R.S.; Sir John Robinson, Sec. R.S.E. Secretaries: James Thompson, F.R.S., Ed.; J. Scott Russell, M.A., F.R.S., Ed.; I. F. Bateman, C.E.; C. Vignoles, F.R.A.S. Committee Sir George Stephenson, E. Woods, John Taylor, P. Clare, R. Roberts, J. Whitworth, J. Nasmyth, G. W. Buck, A. Liddell, Professor Moseley, J. S. Enys, J. I. Hawkins, J. Grantham, Captain Pringle, Mr. Tait, the Baron Von Bache, his Excellency M. Reichel, of St. Petersburgh, and John Kennedy.

A committee of recommendations was then nominated from among the officers of the different sections.

Professor John Phillips afterwards read the programme of the week's proceedings, printed copies of which are prepared for the use of the members. With respect to excursions, he remarked that since the sections had only five clear days of meeting, it was thought better not to make arrangements for excursions which might trench upon the sectional meetings. Arrangements, however, had been made for enabling members of the association to visit the fossil trees on the line of the Bolton Railway. There would be special trains passing from Manchester at nine o'clock on the mornings of Friday, Monday, and Wednesday, by which members would be conveyed to the fossil trees and back gratuitously, tickets having been provided for that purpose. There was also an excursion for Thursday, the 30th of June, after the meeting was over, to the Worsley tunnel and collieries, and for that purpose a boat would leave Knott Mill about eight o'clock in the morning.

The Chairman then announced that the committee would adjourn to Monday, the 27th June, at three o'clock, for the purpose of deciding the question which would then be brought forward as to the next place of meeting, and other business relating thereto.

THURSDAY.-THE SECTIONS.

The scientific business of the association, as is generally known, is transacted in several different classes or sections, which meet at the same hour, in spacious rooms provided for the purpose. The sections met for the first time on Thursday morning, at eleven o'clock, at the following places :—

Section A. (Mathematical and Physical Science), Royal Institution Lecture Theatre.