242 MEMORIES OF MY LIFE 



Meteorological Committee or the Council, and to 

 endorse, with the emphasis arising from their full 

 knowledge of your work, the appreciation which the 

 President and Council of the Royal Society recorded 

 in their letter. 



" It therefore becomes a duty, by which I am no 

 little honoured, to convey to you the feeling of the 

 Council upon the termination of your official ser- 

 vices as a Member of the body on which we have 

 so long worked together. This task I undertake 

 with a full sense of the difficulty of adequately 

 expressing the extent to which the work of the 

 Meteorological Office is indebted for its success and 

 utility to your services, which have extended over 

 thirty-four years. 



"It is no exaggeration to say that almost every 

 room in the Office and all its records give unmistak- 

 able evidence of the active share you have always 

 taken in the direction of the operations of the Office. 

 The Council feel that the same high order of 



o 



intelligence and inventive faculty has characterised 

 your scientific work in Meteorology that has been 

 so conspicuous in many other directions, and has 

 long become known and appreciated in all centres 

 of intellectual activity. 



"With the Office entering upon a new phase of 

 its service to the public, it is impossible for the 

 Council not to feel that the work of the past thirty- 

 four years has only opened the way, as all good 

 work does, for further development I am con- 

 fident that you will still be interested in the success 

 of the undertaking in which you have had so great 

 a share, and the Council will value in the future, as 

 they have done in the past, any suggestion you may 

 make about the work of the Office. 



Believe me, very faithfully yours, 



(Sgd.) RICHARD STRACHEY, Chairman " 



