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while entering into his house, exclaimed — "Well Sir, — what a kap 

 have you created here ? " In reply, Madhu said : "Yes Sir, I have created 

 a kap there." Afterwards he heard everything from Madhu and con- 

 vened a meeting of Kulins and Srotriyas of Majgram and its vicinity 

 to judge the conduct of Madhu's sons. In that meeting Madhu's sous 

 were found guilty of disregarding and illtreating their father. 



Thereupon Dhain Bagchi declared that the sons of Madhu Maitra, 

 by his first wife, should not be henceforth classed among the Kulins. 

 They should be called kap. Their position in the society would be an 

 intermediate one. He also declared that henceforth, should any Kulin 

 touch their water or come in contact whatsoever with them, he also 

 would be a kap. The latter declaration was afterwards modified by 

 Raja Kamsa Narayana Ray, of Tahirpore, who ruled that a Kulin should 

 not lose his Kulinship, unless he married the daughter of a kap or 

 allowed his daughter to marry a kap. This rule is still in existence. 



2. Note on the information supplied by meteorological observations at 

 Hill stations. — By C. Little, M.A. 



In a paper read by me at the last monthly meeting of this Society 

 I advocated the extension of meteorological observation to heights above 

 the ground level, to which it has hitherto been confined in India. In 

 the subsequent discussion the President asked whether the information 

 recorded at Hill stations could not be used in discussing atmospheric 

 conditions at the same level, but at a distance from the Hills. The 

 answer to such a question could be on general lines only in the absence 

 of direct observation, and so far as I remember the opinion I expressed 

 was, that information collected on the summits of isolated peaks may in 

 some respects be useful, but that in the Himalayas the influence of the 

 ridges and valleys must deprive meteorological observations of much of 

 their value except for discussions of local interest. 



Since the meeting I have met with an instance in which the inform- 

 ation collected at Hill stations not only does not appear to represent 

 atmospheric conditions, but may even be misleading to those who may 

 rely upon Hill stations in general discussions. As it appears to me to 

 be important that there should be no misunderstanding in this matter, I 

 have thought it advisable to offer this note to the Society with reference 

 to the President's question, although it contains no information new to 

 meteorologists. 



In a paper in the December number of the U.S. Monthly Weather 

 Review, on the semi-diurnal periods in the earth's atmosphere, Professor 

 Frank H. Bigelow points out that the semi-diurnal period extends to a 

 short distance only from the earth's surface as shown by the various 



