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REPORT ON THE HELM WIND INQUIRY. 
By WILLIAM MARRIOTT, F.R.MeEt.Soc. 
[From the QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL 
Society, Vol. XV. No. 70. April 1889.] 
(Read at Penrith, February 14th, 1889. ) 
THE subject of the Helm Wind has been brought before the Royal 
Meteorological Society on three occasions. On June 18th, 1884, 
‘a paper by the Rev. J. Brunskill on ‘The Helm Wind”* was read. 
This created a great deal of interest in the phenomenon, and 
subsequently the Council appointed a Committee to collect 
information on the subject. A report of this Committee ‘on the 
occurrences of the Helm Wind from 1871 to 1884”t was read on 
April rsth, 188s. 
At the meeting on November r8th, 1885, I gave an account of 
‘the visit which I made to the district on August roth to 21st, 
1885, in company with Mr. T. G. Benn, F.R.Met.Soc.t We made 
the ascent of Cross Fell, drove through most of the villages between 
the mountain and the river Eden, and also went over Hartside 
Fell to Alston, on the eastern side of Cross Fell. By this means 
we gathered a great deal of general information, but nothing very 
came to the conclusion that if we were ever to get at the cause of 
* Quarterly Journal, Vol. X. p. 267. 
+ Quarterly Fournal, Vol. XI. p. 227. 
t Quarterly Fournal, Vol. XII. p. 1. 
