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fortunately that a passage in the Presidential Address, delivered be- 
fore the Society in March last, was so couched as to lead Dr. Neil to 
consider that it conveyed an incorrect representation of the state of 
Meteorological Observations in the Punjab, and accordingly that 
gentleman wrote to the President in the following terms : — 
Lahore, May 11th, 1871. 
‘Dear Srr,—I was somewhat surprised to find you stating, in your 
Presidential Address at a recent meeting of the Asiatic Society, that 
“according to the published reports out of 19 stations,* from 2 only 
have continuous registers extending over two and ahalf years, been 
furnished,” &c. I must ask you to contradict this statement, as it 
disagrees entirely with facts, and in doing so, I trust you will give 
the same publicity both to your contradiction and to this letter, as 
‘has already been given to your address.’ 
‘From Multan alone I have records of continuous registrations 
from 1862 to the present time. From Lahore, Syalkote, Dera 
Ismael Khan, Rawalpindi, continuous registrations have been kept 
up since May 1866. Since January 1869, observations have been 
registered at Ludianah, and for three and a half years continuous re- 
gistrations are on record at Shahpoor.’ 
‘At present registrations of—Barometric pressure, Hygrometry, 
Solar Temperature, Max. and Min. ditto., Direction of Wind, Rain- 
» fall,—are being recorded in Lahore, Multan, Dera Ismael Khan, Ra- 
walpindi, Ludianah, Dhurmsala and Murree, at all of which places 
the observers are paid. The observations are recorded on the plan 
recommended by Glaischer ; the instruments are all good, the baro- 
meters being, in the cases of those at Lahore, Ludianah, Dera 
Ismael Khan, Dhurmsala and Murree, mercurial which have been 
compared with a standard, In other stations, registrations which 
do not include records of atmospheric pressure are kept as in Um- 
ritsur, Gurdaspore and Dalhousie. In some of the stations I have 
had anemographs erected for the continuous registration of the 
direction of the wind. A hiatus will occasionally occur in a 
register from such accidents as breakage or disorder of instruments. 
Out of three barometers (Adie’s Mercurial) which I ordered recently 
* Tn the Panjab. 
