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SiiCOND Report of the Meteorological Committee of 

 the South African Literary and Scientific Insti- 

 tution. Read 11th July 1835. 



The Meteorological Committee having proceeded to draw up 

 and circulate a compendious body of instructions for making 

 Jind refristerino- Meteorological Observations, — the same which 

 forms a part of their first Report to this Institution, — and 

 having, moreover, distributed in various quarters, copies of the 

 printed forms alluded to in p. IG of that Report,— have re- 

 ceived in consequence communications from various parts of 

 this colony, in most instances expressing great willingness to 

 co-operate in the observations recommended, but in almost 

 every case complaining of the want of Rleteorological Instru- 

 ments, and in some, requesting a supply. Your Committee 

 are not without hopes of being enabled in some instances to 

 supply the deficiency. Meanwhile they have to acknowledge 

 the receipt of a regular return, according to their printed form, 

 from Capt. AVolfe, Commandant of Robben Island, of the state 

 of the Barometer, interior and exterior Thermometer, Wind, 

 and Weather, at the hours agreed upon, during the whole of 

 January, February, March, and April, of the present year, 

 with the promise of their future regular continuance. In this 

 communication the observations appear to have been made 

 with such regularity, and the instructions of the Committee, 

 generally so well attended to, as leads them to regret that 

 the Barometer employed should (as appears by the numbers 

 set down) be one capable of being read only to the nearest 

 tenth of an inch, and to render them very desirous to supply 

 a better. A spare Barometer belonging to the Royal Observa- 

 tory has been accordingly placed at their disposal by the 

 Astronomer Royal, and so soon as it shall be furnished with 

 a new tube and otherwise repaired, will be forwarded to Capt. 

 WoLFfc, with a request that his series of observations may be 

 continued with this instrument instead of that at present used ; 

 Robben Island being in many respects a highly advantageous 

 station for acquiring an insight into the Meteorology of this 

 point of the coast, much more so than Cape Town itself. 



From Worcester your Committee have received a register of 

 the Thermometer only (having no Barometer), from P. J. 

 Truteu, Esq. Civil Commissioner for the district, for the 

 month of January of the present year. Having only one 

 Thermometer, which is used both for ascertaining the interior 

 temperature and that of the outer air, the Committee would 

 recommend that he should be supplied with at least one other, 



