MADEIRA METEOROLOGIC. PART 11. 



PART II. 



THE CYCLE OF A DAY, AND SUCCESSION OF DAYS. 



As illustrative of Madeiran days, to begin with, and only 

 for the Funchal neighbourhood of Madeira, I beg to 

 offer my wife's Meteorological Journal for June and July 

 of last year, taken at the garden house where my solar 

 spectroscope was established. 1 The circumstances of 

 the observations were rather apologetical, and the in- 

 strumental results more for differential than absolute 

 purposes ; but a comparison of both the aneroid baro- 

 meter and the thermometers employed, with the daily 

 bulletins from the Government Observatory in Funchal, 

 as published by the French Central Meteorological 

 Bureau, and which I have introduced into the Tables, 

 show that there is not much astray in either of these 

 important registrations. (See Appendix I. for the full 

 records.) 



The chief force, however, of these Madeiran obser- 



1 By name, " Quinta do Corvalho," but utilised now as Jone's private 

 hotel, and much appreciated as such both by visitors and residents. It is 

 about 270 feet above the level of the sea, and sufficiently far to the W.N.W. 

 of Funchal to be considered a country, rather than a city, residence. 



