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Further Results of Meteorological Observations made at the Bath Royal 

 Literari/ and Scientific Institution. By the Kev. Leonard 

 Blumefield, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S., &c., President 



{Read February, I8th, 1887.) 



In a former paper read to this Club in November, 1875, and 

 published in our " Proceedings,"* I stated the Results of Meteoro. 

 logical Observations made at the Bath Eoyal Literary and 

 Scientific Institution, during ten years commencing with March, 

 1865, and ending with February, 1875. I stated under what 

 circumstances these observations had been taken in hand, as also 

 •what had been done previously, or written by others, in reference 

 to the subject of the Bath climate. This was followed by a 

 description of the structure erected in the Institution Gardens 

 for the reception of the instruments employed, the nature and 

 character of the instruments themselves and the way in which 

 they were fixed. As the instruments remain unaltered in 

 character and position, it is unnecessary to repeat here what was 

 then said on this part of the subject. 



Neither is it necessary to say anything further respecting the 

 situation of Bath and its surrounding hills, or as to any other of 

 its features ; nor to speak of other places, some in the immediate 

 neighbourhood, others in the far distance, east and west, of which 

 as compared with Bath in the matter of climate, I gave some 

 account in my first paper. 



My main object at present is to annex the results of ten years 

 further observations of the Thermometer and Rain-gauge to those 

 of the decades preceding. This will cover a period of twenty 

 years, commencing with January, 1866, and ending Avith Dec, 

 1885. I also give the results of eleven years' observations of the 

 Barometer. Very little was said about this instrument in my 

 first paper, from the circumstance of there being no barometer 



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