SOUTH AFRICAN 



QUARTERLY JOURNAL, 



S'SICOTSU S13RZES. 



No. 4. JUI.V— SI PTEMBER, 1834. Part S. 



Instructions for Mahhig and Registering 3feteoroloc/ical 

 Observatiuns at various Stations in ^oiit/iej'n Africa 

 and other Countries in the South Seas, as also at Sea. 

 Drawn up for Circulation by the Meieokological 



(y'OMMITTEE of the SoUTU AFRICAN LlTERAUY AKD 



Philosophical Institution, (and forming part of 

 their first Report to the Institution.) 



IK peat importance of possessing an exact and carefully 

 gistered account of the variations of the Barometer, Thermo- 



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meter, and other Meteorological histriiinents, and of the Wiuds 

 and Weather, throughout tliat extensive region of the .Southern 

 Hemisphere, which is either included within the boundpries of 

 this Colony, or readily accessible from it, has determined the 

 South African Literary and Philosophical Institution to reipiL-st 

 the assistance of its Correspondents and of all who may have 

 leisure and inclination for observations of the kind, to.vuid.; the 

 jrradiial accumiihuion of a continued and extensive series of 

 Meteorological Journals, and towards carrying into effect a 

 concerted plan of contemporaneous observations, on st.Ued 

 d-iys, from which it is conceived that nnich advantage will be 

 derived. The Institution tiierefore solicits the attention of its 

 Correjpondents, and of the lovers of knowledge generally to 

 this object — and earnestly requests their co-operation in 

 making, arranging, and forwarding to its Secretary, resident 

 in Cape Town, observations of the nature, and, so far as 

 practicable, according to the plan of those lu-reafler detailed. 

 Such observations alone can furnish the materials necessarv for 

 an accurate and scientific inquiry into the laws of < lunate 

 regarded as an object of local interest, and are the only da'a 

 through which (taken in conjunction with the knovn laws cf 

 physics) the more general relations of Meteorology can be 

 successfully investigated. 



It can scarcely be necessary to insist on the practical 

 importance of this Science to the Agriculturist, to the 

 ISfavigator, and indeed in every branch of human affairs or 



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