THE COUNCIL. 5 



The labours in the Observatory have been in constant 

 operation, and as far as the Instruments placed in it, and 

 the arrangements which can be made for the using of them, 

 will allow, they have been of service in exciting and maintain- 

 ing a taste for Astronomy, and other branches of physical 

 science connected with it. 



The Meteorological researches of the past year have 

 been still directed to the curious problem of the hourly 

 oscillations of the Barometer, and in this the Secretaries 

 have been aided by Mr. Outhett, who has obliged them 

 by measuring the mercurial column at 4 a. m., and at several 

 other hours, for the space of nearly two years. In conse- 

 quence, the results of much labour on this interesting subject 

 can now be produced in a general table, and compared with 

 other observations and the indications of theory. It is proper 

 to observe that no continued register of observations of this 

 nature, at 4 a. m., has yet been published for any place in 

 Great Britain, except the admirable Essay of Mr. Hudson, in 

 the Philosophical Transactions for 1832. 



From the different Meteorological Registers presented to the 

 Society, the following Table of the quantity of Rain at several lo- 

 calities in Yorkshire, in the year 1834, has been compiled. 



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