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while the United Kingdom only devotes 3,OOOZ. a year to 

 the same purpose. The difficulties on our side of the 

 Atlantic are greater than on the American coasts, on ac- 

 count of the greater changeableness of our weather mainly 

 due to the more irregular distribution of land and water on 

 this side. This, however, instead of discouraging national 

 effort, should be regarded as a reason for increasing it. 

 The greater the changes, the greater is the need for warn- 

 ings, and the greater the difficulty the greater should be 

 the effort. With our multitude of coastguard stations and 

 naval men without employment, we ought to surpass all 

 the world in such a work as this. 



Those among our readers who are sufficiently interested 

 in this subject to devote a little time to it, may make a 

 very interesting weather scrap-book by cutting out the 

 newspaper chart for each day, pasting it in a suitable 

 album, and appending their own remarks on the weather 

 at the date of publication, i.e. the day after the chart ob- 

 servations are made. Such an album would be far more 

 interesting than the postage stamp and monogram albums 

 that are so abundant. 



Parents who desire their children to acquire habits of 

 systematic observation, and to cultivate an intelligent in- 

 terest in natural phenomena, will do well to supply such 

 albums to their sons or daughters, and to hand over to 

 them the daily paper for this purpose. 



The Meteorological Office supplies by post copies of 

 " Daily Weather Reports" to any subscriber who pays five 

 shillings per quarter in advance; such subscriptions payable 

 to Robt. H. Scott, Esq., Director Meteorological Office, 

 116 Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W. 



These daily reports are printed on a large double sheet, 

 on one half of which are four charts, representing sepa- 

 rately the four records which are included in the one 

 smaller newspaper chart viz., those of the barometer, the 

 thermometer, the rain-gauge, and the anemometer. On 

 the other half of the sheet is a detailed separate tabular 

 statement of the results of observations made at the fol- 

 lowing stations : 



