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REPORT OF THE 



METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER, YORK, 1854. 



DIRECTION OF THE WIND. 



In the Observatory, the Committee report, that the Equa- 

 torial and the Transit Instrument have been kept in working 

 condition by Mr. T. Cooke, and that transits have been taken 

 with sufficient frequency to keep accurate time. The Com- 

 mittee in charge of this department, whilst they regret that the 

 instruments are not more frequently turned to account, remark 

 as some excuse for this, that there are two private observatories 

 in York which absorb some of that time and attention that 

 might otherwise be devoted to the observatory of the Yorkshire 

 Philosophical Society. 



