“With regard to Estimates.  I now began to point out to the Admiralty the inconvenience of furnishing separate estimates, viz. to the Admiralty for the Astronomical Establishment, and to the Treasury for the Magnetical and Meteorological Establishment.—­The great work of the Lunar Reductions proceeded steadily:  14 computers were employed on them.—­With regard to the Magnetical and Meteorological Establishment:  I suppose that James Ross’s expedition had returned:  and with this, according to the terms of the original grant, the Magnetical and Meteorological Establishments expired.  There was much correspondence with the Royal Society and the Treasury, and ultimately Sir R. Peel consented to the continuation of the establishments to the end of 1845.—­In this year began my correspondence with Mr Mitchell about the Cincinnati Observatory.  On Aug. 25 Mr Mitchell settled himself at Greenwich, and worked for a long time in the Computing Room.—­And in this year Mr Aiken of Liverpool first wrote to me about the Liverpool Observatory, and a great deal of correspondence followed:  the plans were in fact entirely entrusted to me.—­July 7th was the day of the Total Eclipse of the Sun, which I observed with my wife at the Superga, near Turin.  I wrote an account of my observations for the Royal Astronomical Society.—­On Jan. 10th I notified to Mr Goulburn that our Report on the Restoration of the Standards was ready, and on Jan. 12th I presented it.  After this followed a great deal of correspondence, principally concerning the collection of authenticated copies of the Old Standards from all sides.—­In some discussions with Capt.  Shirreff, then Captain Superintendent of the Chatham Dockyard, I suggested that machinery might be made which would saw ship-timbers to their proper form, and I sent him some plans on Nov. 8th.  This was the beginning of a correspondence which lasted long, but which led to nothing, as will appear hereafter.—­On Dec. 15th, being on a visit to Dean Peacock at Ely, I examined the Drainage Scoop Wheel at Prickwillow, and made a Report to him by letter, which obtained circulation and was well known.—­On May 26th the manuscript of my article, ‘Tides and Waves,’ for the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana was sent to the printer.  I had extensive correspondence, principally on local tides, with Whewell and others.  Tides were observed for me by Colby’s officers at Southampton, by myself at Christchurch and Poole, at Ipswich by Ransome’s man; and a great series of observations of Irish Tides were made on my plan under Colby’s direction in June, July and August.—­On Sept. 15th Mr Goulburn, Chancellor of the Exchequer, asked my opinion on the utility of Babbage’s calculating machine, and the propriety of expending further sums of money on it.  I replied, entering fully into the matter, and giving my opinion that it was worthless.—­I was elected an Honorary Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, London.