CONFERENCE ON MONDAY, JULY 16, 1883. 



Mr. J. K. LAUGHTON, M. A., President of the Meteoro- 

 logical Society, in the Chair. 



STORM WARNINGS. 



IT sounds like a truism to say that almost every trade, 

 every occupation in life, depends more or less on the 

 weather, but surely that of the seaman or fisherman is 

 more seriously influenced by it than any other. Accord- 

 ingly great interest attaches to the efforts which are now 

 made in all civilized countries to convey to their seafaring 

 population any intelligence which may be of service to 

 it in its laborious and perilous calling. 



With the view of exhibiting what is being done in this 

 direction in various parts of the world, the International 

 Meteorological Committee, at its recent meeting at Copen- 

 hagen, resolved, on the invitation of the Executive 

 Committee here, to invite all Meteorological Offices 

 possessing a storm-warning organization, to send to 

 London specimens or models of the methods and 

 apparatus employed by them in the service. 



The result has been that for Europe, Denmark, Germany, 

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