14j report of the 



on this Museum, contribute much to the general amount of 

 information on this important subject, and add a fund of 

 gratification to the reasonable curiosity of our members. 



The Council would wish to point out to meteorological ob- 

 servers in Yorkshire, the propriety of their taking part in the 

 great system of combined periodical observations proposed by 

 Sir John Herschel in 1835, and continued at his request, and 

 by the exertions of M. Quetelet, by most eminent observers 

 in various parts of Emrope *. 



It appears from this survey that our collections have again 

 outgrown the means of orderly and appropriate exhibition. 

 The time is come for desiring to occupy with ranges of new 

 cases the few walls and limited area of floors still vacant. We 

 require drawers for a numerous suite of geological specimens, 

 ranges of vertical cases for the skeletons of birds, and the 

 objects of antiquarian curiosity, and tables to display the 

 Foreign MoUusca and Zoophyta. These are our wants in the 

 Museum ; it is the opinion of the Council, that some change 

 should be made in the system of warming the building, and 

 that some steps should be taken towards providing the meteor- 

 ological and astronomical observers with additional instru- 

 ments. 



* The observations requested by Sir John Herschel are fixed for the 

 solstices and equinoxes ; that is to say, on the 21st December, 21st March, 

 21st June, 21st September, every hour from six in the morning of the 21st, to 

 six in the morning of the following day. M. Quetelet desires thirty-six hours 

 observations, viz. from six a.m. of the 21st, to 6 p.m. of the 22nd. In both 

 sets of observations, if the 21st be Sunday, the observations are to commence 

 on the 22nd, and in M. Quetelet's Series, if the 22nd fall on a Sunday, the 

 observations take place on the 20th and 21st. M. Quetelet has recently given 

 conveniently digested tables of the results communicated to him for 1841 ; but 

 though his list includes twenty-four stations in Europe, there is no contri- 

 bution from England. Bulletin de I' Acad. Roy ale de Bruxelles Tom. VIII. Re- 

 port of the Committee of the Royal Society, 1840. 



