Excerpt from The Annual of Scientific Discovery, 1859: Or Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art
"The necessity for such a measure, to meet the growing demands of science in its application to vital statistics, and the facilities which it would afford in establishing legal evidence in courts of justice, are of too obvious a character to need enforcing by argument. The success with which systems of registration have been employed in Europe, and the gratifying results that have attended their application in some portions of the United States, lead to the hope that the time is not distant when we may have throughout the Union a practical and thorough system, accurate in its details and comparable in its results."
The Twenty-seventh annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, was held at Dublin, Ireland, in August, 1857, Dr. Lloyd in the chair. The meeting was one of the most successful in the annals of the Association, and many papers of great value were presented.
The meeting for 1858 was appointed to be held in Leeds. Prof. Owen, being the President elect. The honor was offered to Dr. Whately, Archbishop of Dublin, but he declined it on the ground that his state of health would not allow him to undertake any duties beyond those of his archiepiscopal office. For 1859 a suggestion in favor of Aberdeen was warmly entertained, and it was agreed to invite Prince Albert to be the President for that year.
The following resolutions, affecting the general interests of science, were passed at this meeting of the Association: -
Resolved, That a Committee be appointed to express to the Government the wish of the British Association that self-recording Anemometrical Instruments should be established on some of the islands of the Atlantic Ocean, in aid of the Meteorological Observations now being carried on on ship-board under the direction of the Meteorological department of the Board of Trade.
That application be made to Government to send a vessel to examine and survey the entrance to the Zambesi River in South Africa, and to ascend the river as far as may be practicable for navigation.
That application be made to Government to send a vessel to the vicinity of Mackenzie River, to make a series of magnetic observations with special reference to the determination of the laws now known to rule the magnetic storms.
It having been found that the application of science to the improvement of steam-ships has been impeded by the difficulty of obtaining the necessary data from the present registration, - Resolved, that a Committee be appointed and authorized to communicate, if necessary, with the Board of Trade on the subject.
The Ray Society held its Fourteenth Annual Meeting during the meeting of the British Association at Dublin. Mr. Babington, of Cambridge, was in the chair.
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