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and means might enable him to elucidate, or be of any use in, he 
would feel proud to receive its instructions, and would do all in his 
power to forward its objects. 
Note.—At the meeting of the General Committee on the 24th Sept., a com- 
mittee was appointed to consider the propriety of printing, in extenso, the hourly 
meteorological observations communicated by Mr. Caldecott, together with 
those made at Plymouth by Mr. Snow Harris, at the instance of the British 
Association. 
On Storms. By James P. Espy. 
Mr. Espy commenced by stating, that he had found, by examining 
simultaneous observations in the middle of storms, and all round their 
borders, that the wind blows inward on all sides of a storm towards its 
central parts, towards a point if the storm is round, and towards a 
line if the storm is oblong, extending through its longest diameter. 
He had been able to investigate within the last five years seventeen 
storms, without discovering one exception to the general rule. As an 
example of recent date, he described and illustrated by a map the 
course of the wind in Great Britain on the night of the 6th of January, 
1839, between the hours of 10 and 12. The observations were thus 
stated : 
1. Romney—strong at 8 p.m., S.E. 
2. Thwaite—strong from 10 to 12, S.S.E. 
3. Southwold—the Susannah driven on shore at 8 p.m., by a south-east wind. 
4. Birmingham—wind strong, E. of south, till one in the morning. 
5. Manchester—S.E. till 12 at night. 
6. Leeds—ditto ditto. 
7. Bridlington—got round S.E. in night, and continued so, blowing a gale 
till after midnight. 
8. Whitby—at 103 p.m. S. by E., high wind. 
9. Berwick—changed from E. of south to $.W., at 10 p.m. 
10. Dundee—on the night of the 6th and day of the 7th, N.W. 
_ 11. Montrose—all night of 6th and 7th a hurricane, N.W. 
12. Aberdeen—ditto ditto. 
13. Cape Wrath—all 6th and 7th, N.W. 
14. Scowrie—evening of 6th till 12 at night, N.W. 
15. Isle of Glan—at 11 p.m., N.W. 
16. Lismore—night of 6th, N.W. to N. 
17. Corsewell—6 p.m. till 12, S.W. 
18. Strangford, Ireland—at 12, night of 6th, S.W. 
19. Mull of Galloway—south till 14 30™ a.m., of 7th. 
20. Calf of Man—S.5.W. till midnight. 
21. Liverpool—changed from §8.S.E. after 10. 
22. Plymouth—S.W. till 12 at night of 6th. 
From this, and from documents which Mr. Espy proceeded to read, 
it appeared that during those hours the wind was blowing a violent 
gale on the north-western part of the island from the north-west, on the 
south-western parts from the south-west, and on the south-eastern 
parts a strong gale from the south-east and south-south-east ; and that 
