COUNCIL FOR 1841. 



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telescope, and that a larger transit instrument ought to be 

 placed on the excellent foundations which have been laid. 



Besides the register of the Meteorological Phenomena at 

 York, of which the subjoined table gives the mean monthly 

 and annual results, * the Curator of this branch of the So- 

 ciety's pursuits has undertaken some researches on the dis- 

 tribution of temperature in the parts of the atmosphere near 

 the ground, of which on a future occasion the result may be 

 presented to the members. The Council, desirous of en- 

 couraging in York the prosecution of the interesting class of 

 inquiries which respect climate and weather, regret that 

 hitherto no sufficient means have been established here for 

 registering the force and direction of the wind. The instru- 

 ments of Whewell and Osier which are at this moment re- 

 cording every momentary variation of the aerial movements 

 over many and distant points of the globe, might, if placed 



METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER— YORK, 1841. 



