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OFFICERS AND COUNCIL, 1847-48.

Trustees (permanent).-Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, G.C.St.S., F.R.S. John Taylor, Esq., F.R.S. The Very Reverend George Peacock, D.D., Dean of Ely, F.R.S.

President. Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Bart., D.C.L., F.R.S., M.P. for the University of Oxford.

Vice-Presidents.-The Earl of Rosse, F.R.S. The Lord Bishop of Oxford, F.R.S. The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford. Thomas G. B. Estcourt, Esq., D.C.L. The Very Rev. The Dean of Westminster, D.D., F.R.S., Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, Oxford. Charles G. B. Daubeny, M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry and Botany, Oxford. The Rev. Baden Powell, M.A., F.R.S., Savilian Professor of Geometry, Oxford.

President Elect.-The Marquis of Northampton, President of the Royal Society.

Vice-Presidents Elect.-The Marquis of Bute, K.T. F.R.S. Sir H. T. De la Beche, F.R.S., Pres. Geol. Soc. The Dean of Llandaff. Lewis W. Dillwyn, Esq., F.R.S. Esq., F.R.S. J. H. Vivian, Esq., F.R.S.

Viscount Adare,
The Very Rev.

W. R. Grove,

General Secretary.-Lieut.-Col. Sabine, For. Sec. R.S., Woolwich. Assistant General Secretary.-John Phillips, Esq., F.R.S., York. General Treasurer.-John Taylor, Esq., F.R.S., 2 Duke Street, Adelphi, London.

Secretaries for the Swansea Meeting in 1848.-Matthew Moggridge, Esq. D. Nicol, M.D.

Treasurer for the Meeting at Swansea.-John Gwyn Jeffreys, Esq., F.L.S. Council.—Sir T. D. Acland, Bart. Professor Ansted. Major Shadwell Clerke. Sir Philip Egerton, Bart. Prof. E. Forbes. Prof. T. Graham. G. B. Greenough, Esq. W. J. Hamilton, Esq. Sir John F. W. Herschel, Bart. James Heywood, Esq. Prof. E. Hodgkinson. Leonard Horner, Esq. Robert Hutton, Esq. Capt. Ibbotson. Dr. R. G. Latham, Sir Charles Lemon, Bart. Prof. Owen. G. R. Porter, Esq. Sir John Richardson. Dr. Roget. Capt. Sir J. C. Ross. Dr. Forbes Royle. H. E. Strickland, Esq. Lieut.-Col. Sykes. William Thompson, Esq. Prof. Wheatstone. Rev. Dr. Whewell.

Local Treasurers.-W. Gray, Esq., York. Rev. E. Hill, Oxford. C. C. Babington, Esq., Cambridge. J. H. Orpen, LL.D., Dublin. Charles Forbes, Esq., Edinburgh. Professor Ramsay, Glasgow. William Sanders, Esq., Bristol. Samuel Turner, Esq., Liverpool. G. W. Ormerod, Esq., Manchester. James Russell, Esq., Birmingham. William Hutton, Esq., Newcastle-on-Tyne. Plymouth.

J. Sadleir Moody, Esq., Southampton.

Cork.

Auditors.-Prof. Ansted. Major Shadwell Clerke. G. R. Porter, Esq.

OFFICERS OF SECTIONAL COMMITTEES AT THE
OXFORD MEETING.

SECTION A.-MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE. President.-Rev. Professor Powell, M.A., F.R.S., &c.

Vice-Presidents.-J. Couch Adams, Esq. M.A. Rev. Professor Cooke, B.D. Sir David Brewster, F.R.S. Very Rev. The Dean of Ely, F.R.S. Rev. Professor Challis, F.R.A.S.

Secretaries.-Professor Stevelly, LL.D. G. G. Stokes, Esq., M.A. Rev. B. Price, M.A.

SECTION B.-CHEMICAL SCIENCE, INCLUDING ITS APPLICATION TO
AGRICULTURE AND THE ARTS.

President.-Rev. W. V. Harcourt, M.A., F.R.S.

Vice-Presidents.-W. R. Grove, Esq., M.A., F.R.S. P. Pusey, Esq., M.P. (for the application of Chemistry to Agriculture and the Arts). Dr. Lyon Playfair, F.G.S.

Secretaries.-Professor Solly, F.R.S. R. Hunt, Esq. B. C. Brodie, Esq.,

B.A.

SECTION C.-GEOLOGY AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.

President.-The Very Rev. Dr. Buckland, Dean of Westminster, &c. &c. Vice-Presidents.-Sir R. I. Murchison, G.C.St.S., F.R.S., &c. (for Geography). Charles Lyell, Esq., M.A., F.R.S. Sir H. T. De la Beche, F.R.S., Pres. G.S. The Very Rev. Dr. Conybeare, Dean of Llandaff, F.R.S. Rev. Professor Sedgwick, M.A., F.R.S.

Secretaries. Professor Ansted, M.A., F.R.S. Professor Oldham, F.G.S. A. C. Ramsay, Esq., F.G.S. J. Ruskin, Esq., M.A., F.G.S.

SECTION D.-ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY*.

President.-H. E. Strickland, Esq., M.A., F.G.S.

Vice-Presidents.-Sir W. C. Trevelyan, Bart., F.G.S. P. B. Duncan, Esq. R. Brown, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S. Rev. Professor Henslow, F.L.S. Sir John Richardson, M.D., F.R.S.

Secretaries.-Dr. Lankester, F.R.S. T. V. Wollaston, Esq., B.A. Dr.

Melville.

SUBSECTION OF ETHNOLOGY.

President.-Professor H. H. Wilson, M.A. Vice-Presidents.-Sir Charles Malcolm. Hodgkin. F.R.G.S. Dr. R. G. Latham, Secretary.-Professor Buckley, M.A.

Dr. Prichard, F.R.S. Dr.

SECTION E.-PHYSIOLOGY*.

President.-Professor Ogle, M.D., F.R.S.

Vice-Presidents.-Professor Owen, F.R.S. J. E. Gray, Esq., F.R.S. G. Newport, Esq., F.R.S. John Simon, Esq., F.R.S. Secretaries.-Dr. Thomas K. Chambers. W. P. Ormerod, Esq.

SECTION F.-STATISTICS.

President.-Travers Twiss, D.C.L., F.R.S.

Vice-Presidents. Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., F.R.S. Henry Hallam, Esq., F.R.S. Lieut.-Colonel Sykes, V.P.R.S. G. R. Porter, Esq., F.R.S. Secretaries.-J. J. Danson, Esq. F. G. P. Neison, Esq., F.L.S. Rev. W. Hayward Cox, B.D.

* By direction of the General Committee at Oxford, Sections D. and E. will be, in future incorporated under the name of the Section of Zoology and Botany, including Physiology.

SECTION G.-MECHANICS.

President. Rev. Professor Walker, M.A., F.R.S.

Vice-Presidents.-Sir J. Rennie, F.R.S. John Scott Russell, Esq., M.A., F.R.S.E. Professor Hodgkinson, F.R.S. J. Taylor, Esq., F.R.S. Secretaries.-J. Glynn, Esq., F.R.S. R. A. Le Mesurier, Esq., B.A.

COW.

CORRESPONDING MEMBERS.

Professor Agassiz, Neufchatel. M. Arago, Paris. Dr. A. D. Bache, Philadelphia. Professor Berzelius, Stockholm. Professor H. von Boguslawski, Breslau. Monsieur Boutigny d'Evreux, Paris. Professor Braschmann, MosM. De la Rive, Geneva. Professor Dove, Berlin. Professor Dumas, Paris. Professor Ehrenberg, Berlin. Dr. Eisenlohr, Carlsruhe. Professor Encke, Berlin. Dr. A. Erman, Berlin. Professor Forchhammer, Copenhagen. Professor Henry, Princeton, United States. Professor Kreil, Prague. M. Kupffer, St. Petersburg. Dr. Langberg, Christiania. Baron de SelysLongchamps, Liège. M. Frisiani, Milan. Baron Alexander von Humboldt, Berlin. M. Jacobi, St. Petersburg. Professor Jacobi, Königsberg. Dr. Lamont, Munich. Baron von Liebig, Giessen. Professor Link, Berlin. Professor Matteucci, Pisa. Professor von Middendorff, St. Petersburg. Dr. Ersted, Copenhagen. Chevalier Plana, Turin. M. Quetelet, Brussels. Professor C. Ritter, Berlin. Professor H. Rose, Berlin. Professor Schumacher, Altona. Baron Senftenberg, Bohemia. Dr. Svanberg, Stockholm. Baron Sartorius von Waltershausen, Gotha. Professor Wartmann, Lausanne.

REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE COUNCIL IN 1846-47, PRESENTED TO THE GENERAL COMMITTEE AT OXFORD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1847.

Report of the Council to the General Committee.

1. With reference to the subjects on which the Council was requested by the General Committee at Southampton to make applications to Her Majesty's Government, the Council has to report that the following official replies have been received :

1st. In respect to the publication of the meteorological observations made by the officers of the Irish Trigonometrical Survey at Mountjoy and the Pigeon House since the year 1834,-the Master-General and Board of Ordnance have informed the Council that the Lords of the Treasury have approved of a grant for that purpose being included in the estimates for 1848.

2nd. In reply to the request of the British Association that a particular survey should be made of the parallel roads of Glen Roy,-MajorGeneral Colby, Director of the Ordnance Trigonometrical Survey, has replied that it would delay the progress of the survey of Scotland to take up isolated positions; but that he hopes that no essential inconvenience will be found to result from deferring the survey of the parallel roads until they come into regular course of progress. The survey will then give all the levels and other information which is known to be required, and thus answer the objects which the British Association has in view.

2. The Council has to announce that the publication of the Star Catalogues of Lalande and Lacaille, for which a grant of £1000 was placed by Government at the disposal of the British Association, has been completed,

and that copies will lie on the table of the General Committee when this report is presented. The Council, having requested the opinion of the Committee for superintending the publication as to the best mode of distribution and sale of these catalogues, has received from Sir J. F. W. Herschel, Chairman of the Committee, the following communication, and has adopted the recommendations contained therein.

"Cambridge, Feb. 25, 1847.

"After mature consideration of the best mode of publication of the Catalogues of Lalande and Lacaille, Mr. Stratford, the Astronomer Royal and myself, are agreed that it will be the best course for the British Association to publish them in the usual manner, at a price of £1 1s. for the Catalogue of Lalande, and 5s. for that of Lacaille; and, not troubling the Government further on the subject than to report their readiness for publication, and the total absorption of the grant, to acknowledge the liberality of the aid given, and to inquire how many copies the Government would desire to have for official distribution beyond those hereafter mentioned for the public observatories, and to request their sanction for the disposal of the remainder at the reduced prices above named.

"We are decided in recommending that copies should be presented to the British and East Indian public astronomical observatories, but that no distribution should take place to private individuals beyond the press copies in sheets as printed off, which have passed into the hands of the Committee in the progress of the work for remark or correction.

"J. F. W. HERSCHEL."

"Public Astronomical Observatories to which Catalogues are proposed to be

presented.

"Royal Observatory Greenwich, Dublin, Edinburgh, Cape of Good Hope. Observatories of Cambridge, Oxford, Armagh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Durham. The H.E.I. Company's Observatories at Madras and Bombay."

3. The Council had added to the list of Corresponding Members of the British Association the names of the following gentlemen: -Mons. Boutigny d'Evreux, Dr. Eisenlohr, Prof. Forchhammer, Baron de Selys-Longchamps, Prof. Matteucci, Prof. von Middendorf, Prof. H. Rose, and Dr. Svanberg.

4. Doubts having been expressed whether Swansea, from whence an invitation for the year 1848 was presented at Southampton, possesses sufficient accommodation to receive conveniently a meeting of the British Association, the Council requested Mr. Phillips to visit Swansea for the purpose of examining and reporting on its means of public and private accommodation, and has received from him the following communication :—

"London, April 6, 1847.

"The inquiry which you requested me to make, as to the accommodation which might be found in Swansea for a Meeting of the British Association, has been rendered comparatively easy, and capable of an accurate answer, by the excellent arrangement of Mr. Grove and the zealous assistance of his friends at Swansea. The town had been, in fact, surveyed, and the views of the principal inhabitants and neighbouring residents ascertained, before my arrival there in the beginning of April.

"I was, in consequence, enabled, in a few days, to confirm entirely the expectations of Mr. Grove and his friends, that suitable accommodation for the public purposes of the Association could be found in the Royal Institution, the Assembly Rooms, the Town Hall, Theatre, and certain large schoolrooms; and that the situation of these buildings is in general such as to

secure considerable compactness and facility of arrangement for the Meetings. On this part of the subject, then, I may report that the public accommodation offered in Swansea will be sufficient for a meeting consisting altogether of

1000 persons.

"The extent of private accommodation which may be found in Swansea, for the individual comfort of non-resident members, depends far more on the feeling with which the inhabitants regard the Association, than on the number of houses or extent of population. The gentlemen already referred to have, in the course of their minute and systematic inquiries, ascertained this feeling to be very favourable, and have, in consequence, estimated that above two hundred persons may be referred to private hospitality in Swansea and the vicinity.

"They further estimated, that in the different principal inns and lodginghouses, and in houses where, for the visit of the Association, beds may be furnished, more than 400 persons may be accommodated.

"From what I saw, these estimates appeared to be correct; they correspond to what may be called a moderate Meeting of the Association, such as that at Southampton.

"In the course of my survey some reflections occurred to me which it may, perhaps, be proper to express.

"First. It may be remarked that a Meeting of the Association at Swansea would have been quite impracticable, but for the prior establishment and creditable support of the Royal Institution of South Wales, which is there in operation. This remark, which is in harmony with our previous experience, may have a prospective value.

"Secondly. Swansea is not so large a place, or so richly environed, as to be able to sustain a Meeting of the Association except by the strength of united public feeling. This feeling is at present undoubtedly strong, and in the right direction, and there is reason to believe that it will remain so.

"Thirdly. The access to Swansea, though easy enough, is still of the oldfashioned kind-the steam-boat and the mail-coach. Were the South Wales railroad completed, the facility of reaching the town, and the celebrity of the great establishments round it, might attract a much larger assemblage than can be reasonably expected under the present arrangements. But for a large Association-Meeting, the accommodations in Swansea are at present inadequate, and it is likely that they will remain so until some years after the opening of the railway.

"Lastly. As furnishing some information to assist the Council in forming a decision on this subject, I add a short statement of the number of non-residents who were present at some of the late Meetings of the Association,including in this term all persons whose place of abode was not in the city or town where the Meeting was held, and who for the most part may be supposed to have required temporary accommodation.

Non-Res.

Plymouth (1841) ......410
Manchester (1842)......550
Cork (1843)
...185

Non-Res.

York (1844)..........520
Cambridge (1845) ....620
Southampton (1846)....530"

The Council feels much satisfaction in submitting Mr. Phillips's statement to the General Committee. It will be seen, that should it be the pleasure of the General Committee to accept the invitation for Swansea, there is no reason to doubt that the accommodation will be found sufficient.

Oxford, June 23, 1847.

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