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METEOROLOGY. 



[Jan. 



Meteorology. 



FBOM THE TOP OF BEN XEVIS. 



READEES of the daily newspapers now scan with avidity the 

 telegraphic weather reports sent daily from this the highest 

 of our British mountains ; whilst perusers of the Gi-aphic are not 

 unacquainted with the manner of spending Christmas at a height so 

 far above ordinary Briton's cares and enjoyments. It appears 

 fitting, then, to give the meteorological p)age of Forestry to the 

 remarkable paper of Mr. Buchan, given in last issue of the Journal of 

 tJic Scottish Meteorological Society, on the new institution which it has 

 called into active work, amid sore discouragement from Government 

 departments, and which therefore stands out so prominently as an 

 example of successful voluntary effort for scientific research. The 

 accompanying woodcut, reproduced through the courtesy of the 

 Society, gives some idea of the summer aspect of the establishment ; 

 but the reader is left to fill in the road constructed from the base 

 of the mountain, as well as the elaborate equipment of scientific 

 instruments, for which, in all, the sum of £5000 was subscribed, in 

 subscriptions varying from £'200 to gd. 



The moTintain is on the track of tlie south-west storms from 

 the Atlantic sweeping across the German Ocean, often to devastate 

 the Continent in the winter and spring months ; so the observations 

 made on it are of greatest use in weather 



forecasting. Jlessrs. 



