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accordingly, unless I hear from you to the contrary I will take care 
that your letter is read at our next meeting, which will take place 
on Wednesday, 7th June, and is also published in our Proceedings.’ 
‘I thank you very much for your kind words of courtesy towards 
myself.’ 
I am yours very faithfully 
J. B. Puear, 
Pres. of As. Soc. Bengal. 
To A. Net, Ese., M. R. C. 8. L. 
Lahore. 
To this letter he received the following answer :— 
Lahore, 23rd May, 1871. 
‘Dear Srr,—Your reply to my letter is, as I of course expected it 
to be, quite satisfactory. My Report for 1869 was out about the 
end of last year, but was not distributed till some time after. I 
should like my letter to be published, however, in the next issue 
of the Journal, not so much in reference to your remarks about my 
Reports, as because it contains my views, in great part at least, 
regarding the method of conducting Meteorology in this country, © 
and what ought to be done in order to have a combined plan of 
registration. I believe Col. Strachey has for some time had the 
matter under consideration, and I wrote to him about the same time 
as I addressed you, but I have not as yet heard from him in reply.’ 
‘The hiatus, which you note in the Lahore Register for part of 
1868, was owing to my having had to leave the station for another, 
and some time elapsed before I could get a proper system of regi- 
stration re-established. The breakage and damages that so often 
occur to inspections are a source of continual anxiety tome. Baro- 
meters are an especial source of grief and annoyance. Thanking 
you very much for your letter,’ 
‘I am, dear Sir, Yours very faithfully, 
A. Nett.’ 
‘As an explanatory footnote to my letter, I should like to say,’— 
‘T have since learnt from the President of the Society that he 
had not seen my last Report (for 1869) before he delivered his ad- 
