42 REPORT—1850. 
On the British Meteorological Society, By Dr. Lux. 
Dr, Lee presented to the British Association an address of the British Meteoro- 
logical Society, explanatory of its formation and the objeetswhich it has in view :— 
The collection of correct manuscript observations. 
The publication of Tables. 
The Reduction of Observations to useful results. 
The distribution of Meteorological Papers. 
The examination and correction of Meteorological Instruments. 
The encouragement and promotion of Meteorological Science. 
The formation of a Library. 
The payment of Computers to reduce observations, &c. 
He stated that the Society at present consisted of 121 Members, and that the 
Society was anxious to obtain the patronage of the British Association of Science, 
and to act in connection with it and to promote its views. 
On some Phenomena of Mirage on the East Coast of Forfarshire. 
By the Rev. C. F. Lyon. 
Mr. Lyon had noticed the Red Head at Montrose, distant twenty-five miles from St. 
Andrews, assume a square form, then notched, then double-notched. The outlines 
of the sea had risen up with angular corners, and portions of the sea seemed raised 
up as if seen through unequal glass. (Diagrams illustrated the communication.) 
On Meteorological Phenomena at Huggate, Yorkshire, for 1849. 
By the Rev. T. Rankin. 
The results may be thus abstracted :—Thermometer, coldest day, January 3, night 
thermometer, 19°; hottest day, July 12, thermometer, 71°; lowest range (or change), 
June 11 and December 13, viz. 1°; greatest range, May 12, viz. 26°. Barometer, 
lowest point, 28°20 in., January 10; highest, 30°42 in., October 29; lowest range, 
0:01, January 17 and February 8; greatest range, 0°66 in., February 14. Hygro- 
meter, wet bulb, minus dry, lowest, 0°°5, March 23, June 5, October 25; greatest 
depression of wet bulb, 8°5, June 27; during heavy rain and intense frost both are 
nearly equal. The author found the cold water in the tube to affect by radiation the 
dry bulb; but a sheet of paper interposed got rid of this source of error. Rain, 
total, 29°770 in., being 12°855 in. less than in 1848 ; least rain in February, 0°720 in. ; 
most in July, 4°750in. November Atmospheric Wave, edge of anterior trough, 
29°95 in., barometer, on November 10, gentle breeze S.; bottom of trough, 29°17 in., 
on November 15, wind W.; crest of wave, 30°00 in. on the 17th, wind W.; bottom 
of posterior trough, 28°95 in., on the 24th, wind W.; height of the edge, 29°87 in., 
on the 27th, wind N.W.; seventeen days passing, same as in 1848. Aurora on 
August 12, resembling a fan; on the 28th, perpendicular beams; December 23, sky 
dappled in shape of adome. Halo, a beautiful one, about 8° around the moon, De- 
cember 26, between 9 and 10 P.m., moon nearly full, wind W. Hurricane, night of 
December 26, about twelve o’clock, barometer fell from 29°80 to 29°11 in.; thermo- 
meter, 34°; a hurricane fram W. followed; previously large masses of cirro-cumu- 
lus had been floating about. Winds, E., 6; W., 44; N., 2; $., 15; N.E., 31; 
N.W., 22; S.E., 15; S.W., 26. Thunder, April 28; June 14; July 18, 21,30; 
August 17, 18. Weather, 129 days clear, 66 days occasional rain, 22 days frost, 
15 days occasional snow, 226 days wholly or partially dull: in 1848 there were 229 
days wholly or partially dull. 
On the Passage of Storms across the British Islands. 
By R. Russert, Kilwhiss, Cupar, Fife. 
Mr. Russell stated that there appeared to be two distinct classes of storms which 
occurred in the British islands, but in both there were two currents in the atmo- 
sphere blowing in different directions :—1st, those in which the wind below veered 
