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and recorded at Athlone, by John Long, Esq., during a period 

 of four years. 



The Tables (see Appendix, No. VI.) are compiled from 

 daily observations. The columns are arranged to show, in 

 monthly periods, the various fluctuations in the fall of rain, 

 with the duration and variable nature of the dry and wet 

 periods, also the greatest amount of continuous fall of rain, 

 as well as the greatest daily fall, thus presenting an exact 

 criterion of the humidity and variable nature of the climate. 

 The rise and fall of the Shannon is also shewn, with its 

 various fluctuations ; also the fluctuations of the wind, and 

 its continuance at the various points. A general abstract table 

 for the whole is given, and an average struck for the four 

 years. The daily observations from which these tables are 

 compiled, having been taken in the central district of Ireland, 

 where no similar observations appear to have been recorded, 

 may perhaps be considered as giving them increased value. 

 The district is remote from the influence of hills or mountains, 

 and lies about central in the great flat limestone field of Ire- 

 land, extending from Dublin to Galway. 



Colonel Jones suggested that the Council should draw 

 up instructions for parties employed by the Board of Works, 

 in different parts of Ireland ; explaining what objects of scien- 

 tific and antiquarian interest ought to be noticed and preserved 

 by them. 



He proposed to bring the subject before the Board of 

 Works, in the hopes that their officers might be enabled to 

 make meteorological observations of value, or to secure for 

 the Museum of the Academy antiquities worthy of preser- 

 vation. 



Sir William Betham read a note from Mr. William F. 

 Wakeman, relating to the remains of the market cross of Navan. 



