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instituted in London, under the title of " The Meteorological 

 Society of London," but which society, although not abso- 

 lutely dissolved, is now scarcely in a state of existence. 

 Whether that society should be revived, or a new one should 

 be raised, your aid is of the utmost importance, as among 

 your correspondents there are, no doubt, many who would 

 not only be willing to assist, but would be able to propose the 

 means to attain that which has so long been a desideratum, 

 the union of the meteorologists of the kingdom. 



The fear of trespassing too much on your indulgence 

 makes me refrain from entering into any detail of the benefits 

 a meteorological society would afford to agriculturists, the 

 valetudinarian, the traveller, when journeying on the land ; 

 and the mariner, while traversing the wide waste of waters. 



Wycombe, Bucks, June 13. 1836. 



Art. VII. An Approval of the Proposition of instituting a Co- 

 operative Use, in different Stations in Britain, of uniform Me- 

 teorological Journals ; and a Notice of a Kind of Rain Gauge. 

 By T. K. 



I was very glad to see the proposal, in p. 305., by Mr. 

 White, of a union of meteorological journals, through the 

 medium of your Magazine. I think that the subject is of 

 much importance, particularly as regards the shifts of wind ; 

 as, by means of many observers in proper places, a chart of 

 the winds for any moment of time, in these islands, can be 

 easily constructed ; and I strongly suspect that currents of 

 wind are occasionally very local. Isolated journals are of 

 slight use ; but, when combined with others, their importance 

 is at once perceived. I have been for some years in the habit 

 of daily noting down the height of the barometer, ther- 

 mometer, &c. ; and, if observations made in so westerly a 

 county as Tipperary would be acceptable, I should be very 

 glad to forward them at the stated times. Some definite plan 

 of observations should, certainly, be struck out by some able 

 meteorologist, or by some scientific body, which could be made 

 known, to those who would undertake the task, at the places 

 fixed on, through your pages. 



\_A kind of Rain-Gauge.'] I send beneath the plan of a 

 rain-gauge {fig. 62.) ; which is, I think, simple, and yet 

 indicating accurately so small a quantity of rain as the 

 thousandth of an inch. Any of your correspondents could 

 construct one for himself, a, a tin funnel, japanned ; b, a 

 glass tube, bent twice, so that the extremity of it may form a 



