kilTEOROLOGY REVIfiW. 4o 



TO OUR METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVERS. 



A uew Form is iu the course of despatch. Several alterations have, 

 it will be uoticed, been made iu the Headings and Instructions in order 

 to ensure absolute uiii/orvtity of entry for purposes of scientitic com- 

 parison with the abstracts, etc., of the Meteorological Society. Hence- 

 forth, commencing with our abstract for January, 1882, 0-UU(j and 

 above will coustitute a day of rain ; and the mode of dealing in future 

 with the extreme shade temperatures will appear from the following : — 

 K the maximum and minimum thermometers are read and set in the 

 evening the extreme readings are to be entered, invariably, as usual to 

 the days on which they are observed ; but if read and set in the 

 morning the absolute or extreme maximum is to be entered against 

 the previous day (although in cyclonic weather it may be known to have 

 actually occurred during the early morning hours), and the absolute 

 minimum to the day on which it is read (notwithstamliug it may be 

 known to have taken place under certain conditions on the day pre- 

 ceding). All of our observers, but especially those who do not observe 

 for the Society, and are unaccustomed to its rules, are most earnestly 

 requested in th*^ interests of science, which cannot in the Meteorolo- 

 logical branch be entirely advanced except by the strictest uniformity 

 and method, to rigidly adhere to the plan and instructions of the new 

 Form. It would be well if all observers adopted Stevenson's Thermo- 

 meter Screen and verified instruments placed four feet above grass, 

 and at least twenty-five feet from any wall or fence. All readings 

 would then be strictly intercomparable, and immense good would 

 ultimately accrue to meteorological research. Some of our best 

 observers, now doing good work, would vastly increase the value of 

 their results by entering into the general plan and adopting perfect 

 uniformity of obser\-ation and exposure of instruments. A single 

 observer, acting bj' himself, can do little more than local good ; but 

 when forming one of a scientitic body, acting with its members in 

 perfect harmony and accord, he becomes as it were an important 

 wheel in that mighty system of machinei'v that has for the object of 

 its labours the solving of the all important problems in 3Ieteorology. 

 and the ultimate advancement of the public good. I most cordially 

 thank one and all for the generous and valuable assistance they have 

 already given to the Meteorological Department of the •' Midland 

 Naturalist." 



January, 1882. CLEMENT L. WKAGGE. 



Bcbiclu. 



On a Discovery of Fottil Fithet in the New Bed Sandstone of Nottingham. 



By E. Wilson, F.G.S.' 

 I WISH to call the attention of the Section to a recent discovery of 

 fossil fishes in the Lower Keuper Sandstone of England, a circum- 

 stance of sufficient rarity in itself, apart from any palaeontological 

 results, to deserve at least a passing notice. 



During the construction of the Leen VaUey Outfall Sewer, in 1878, 

 & remarkably interesting section was given by the tunnelling driven 

 through Rough Hill, or Colwick Wood, near Nottingham, showing the 



Communicated to the British ABsociatioD York Meeting, 1881 



