1865.] on Meteorological Communications, fyc. 319 



" The small pecuniary resources of our Meteorological Institute, which 

 now includes ninety-seven stations, do not permit me to publish the daily 

 means. I have therefore had to content myself with five-day means ; but 

 I think that by the consequent calculation of deviations I have brought 

 some questions nearer to a solution. But I have to do this work by 

 myself, and, overcharged as I am besides with official duties, I do not think 

 I shall long be able to continue to master it. The resources which the 

 British Association offers to all scientific undertakings in England will 

 make it possible for you to establish in a thorough manner the constants 

 of a climatology of England, and to investigate on this climatological basis 

 the meteorology of England. 



" I had long proposed to myself to write from my own point of view a 

 pamphlet ' how to observe ' in meteorology ; but when one has, as I have 

 constantly, to give lectures in the day, and hold examinations in the even- 

 ing till nine o'clock, much that has been contemplated is left undone 



In regard to telegraphic communications, Admiral FitzRoy once said to me 

 that reports from Eastern Europe were of little interest for England. This 

 may be granted where it is question of the storms which assail the English 

 and Irish coasts themselves. But the commerce of the Baltic is for the 

 greater part in the hands of Englishmen, and I think that it would there- 

 fore be conducive to English interests also if the efforts were facilitated 

 which are made by others to lessen the dangers to shipping in the Baltic. 

 As it is precisely north-west storms which are the most dangerous in that 

 sea, communications from England are wanted for this. Among the 

 numerous telegraphic communications received here daily, there are none 

 from England. Would it not be possible to arrange an exchange, if only 

 for one or two stations ? The communication might be made through 

 Tb'nningen, by the cable, so as to avoid the German-Austrian Telegraph 

 Company, which declines to afford a gratuitous passage for our messages. 



" Harbour signal arrangements are now established at Memel, Pillau, 

 Neufahrwasser, Stolpemiinde, Riigenwalde, Colbergermiinde, Swinemtinde, 

 Greifswald, Stralsund, and Earth." 



June 15, 1865. 

 Major-General SABINE, President, in the Chair. 



The Rev. W. R. Dawes, Mr. George Gore, Dr. George Harley, Mr. W. 

 Huggins, Mr. Fleeming Jenkin, and Mr. \V. K. Parker, were admitted into 

 the Society. 



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