BY THE REV. W. B. CLARKE, M.A., F.G.S. &c., V.P. 171 



and with much advantage the extensive lessons of the former, 

 and that I name the latter author only in connection with what 

 has been observed in Australasia ; and that it is not in a spirit of 

 presumption that I venture to make the following remarks. 



I can, of course, have no objection to the establishment here 

 of Observatories or Meteorological stations to test any of these 

 views. Therefore, my remarks must not be interpreted into a 

 denial of the value of such stations, could we only discover where 

 they could be placed. Together with the late Admiral King, I 

 waited on a late Governor, Sir Charles Fitz Roy, to urge the 

 establishment of an Astronomical Observatory near Sydney, 

 and if our recommendation, backed as it was by Capt. Owen 

 Stanley, R.N., had been attended to, the present Astronomer 

 would have been saved much inconvenience, and the Observatory 

 would have been placed where it ought to have been, on the 

 Silica Range, on the North Shore. 



I do not, therefore, object to fresh stations, but, with my 

 views relating to storms, I do not yet see where we could place 

 these stations, so as to become fore-casters of change. And the 

 adoption of these is the main object, as I take it, of Mr. Tebbutt's 

 paper. 



In order to show this, I have entered into so much preliminary 

 matter, before I examine the grounds of his argument. 



The first point noticed is the easterly tendency of the 

 atmosphere in this hemisphere as well as in the northern, the 

 latter of which is dwelt on by Admiral Fitz Roy, though it must 

 be added that his synchronous curves are very irregular in this 

 respect. . 



That the atmosphere partakes of the earth's motion there can 

 be little doubt : I have shown this in my Herald essays. The 

 upper wind in all known temperate latitudes is generally from 

 the west, and of examples of this I would mention the dust (with 

 American infusoria) so constantly falling over the Cape de Verd 

 Islands, of which I have been eye witness ; and the volcanic 

 ashes from South American eruptions which, falling upon the 

 trade wind, were carried by it to the westward back again towards 

 Jamaica. 



Mr. Tebbutt shows in his diagrams that there is, apparently, 



