566 SEC. 14. METEOROLOGY. 



1. Two volumes of the Society's Quarterly Reports from 1856 



to 1863. 



2. Vols. L. II., III., and IV. of the Society's Journal from 1863 



to present date. 



3. Three Papers by A. Buchan, Secretary, from Trans. Roy. 



Soc. Edin. Scottish Meteorological Society. 



2787. Meteorological Instruments, set, for the use of 



colleges and public schools. Francis Pastorelli. 



These instruments -when compared with the 'standards at the Kew Obser- 

 vatory will be found to be within the error permitted by that institution. 



They consist of a comparative standard barometer, maximum and minimum 

 thermometer, wet and dry bulb hygrometer, terrestrial radiation thermo- 

 meter, solar radiation (in vacuo) thermometer, rain gauge and graduated 

 measure. 



2788. Specimens of Meteorological Instruments, supplied by 

 the Meteorological Office to the Royal Navy : 



Kew-pattern Marine Barometer, iron cistern, tube protected 

 with India-rubber packing against damage by concussion from 

 gun-firing, &c. ; by Adie, marked A 430 ; certificate of Kew 

 verification in box. Glass tube and packing, as fitted to the 

 above barometer. 



Pair of Thermometers, maximum /p A 369, and minimum^ 



A 394 ; constructed specially for use at sea in chronometer rooms, 

 by Hicks. Certificates of verification in box. 



Aneroid, compensated for temperature, marked Elliott, A 421. 



N.B. The thermometers, screen, and hydrometers supplied to 

 Her Majesty's ships are of the same pattern as those lent to mer- 

 chant ships and exhibited in case. 



Portable Instruments used by Admiralty Surveyors : Pocket 

 Aneroid, compensated. Casella,/|\ 6 (548). 



Pocket Thermometer, mounted in boxwood, in leather case, 

 Casella, No. 13. 



Portable thermometer, in padded tin case, Hicks, B. T. 499; 

 to give the temperature of the air by whirling around at the end 

 of a string. Meteorological Committee. 



2789. Specimens of Instruments used at Stations of the 

 Meteorological Office : 



Barometer, used at Coast Stations as a weather-glass, by Hicks, 

 M. O. 143. 



Stevenson's Thermometer Screen, by Hicks. 



Maximum Thermometer, by Negretti and Zambra, B. T. 215 

 (5577). 



