vIaR 5 1900 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ROYAL PHYSICAL SOCIETY. 



SESSION CXXVIII. 



Wednesday, 16th Novcmher 1898.— Mr B. K Peach, F.R.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



Owing to the illness of Mr Andrew Wilson, the retiring 

 Vice-President, the customary Opening Address was on this 

 occasion omitted. 



IX. Besidts of Meteorologiccd Ohservations taken in Edin- 

 hurgh during 1898. By E. C. Mossman, F.Pv.S.E., 

 F.E.Met.Soc. 



(Read 15th March 1899.) 



The data discussed in this paper are deduced from bi- daily 

 observations of the standard instruments read daily at 9 a.m. 

 and 9 P.M., and controlled by the automatic methods of 

 registration which were fully described in last report. The 

 weekly and monthly returns, to the number of one hundred 

 and forty, continue to be regularly forwarded to the Scottish 

 Meteorological Society, the Eegistrar-General for Scotland, 

 and the Meteorological Office ; and, in addition, a large number 

 of private inquiries have been answered. During the year 

 a number of experiments with kites of the Blue Hill pattern 

 have been made, with a view to the scientific exploration of 

 the upper air. These experiments have, on the whole, been 

 successful, and the few failures have served to indicate the 



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