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Meteorological Office, Mr. W. Ellis, F.R.S., Mr. E. Mawley, 

 and Mr. Baldwin Latham. 



The meetings of the Society are held monthly during 

 the session, which lasts from November to June. At the 

 annual meeting in January it is the custom for the President 

 to deliver an Address, while at the meeting in March either 

 a lecture is delivered by some well-known man of science 

 on a subject cognate to Meteorology, or an exhibition is held. 

 At the other meetings communications are read and discussed. 

 The supply of papers has been well kept up during the war, 

 but difficulties of travel and the pressure of other occupa- 

 tions have necessarily interfered with the attendance of 

 many of the Fellows. 



In addition to the work of individual Fellows the Society 

 has been able to organise enquiries into many questions of 

 interest, either by the work of committees or the collection 

 of observations. Among subjects which have been dealt 

 with in the past may be mentioned : 



The appointment, in conjunction with other societies, of 

 a Lightning Rod Conference, of which Mr. Symons was 

 Secretary, and which reported in 1882, and issued a code of 

 rules for the erection of Lightning Conductors which has 

 stood the test of time. 



Systematic investigations of the thunderstorms of 1888 

 and 1889. 



The classification of the various forms of lightning. 



The expression of Beaufort's scale of Wind Force in 

 terms of velocity in miles per hour. 



Inquiry into the phenomena of the Helm Wind of 

 Crossfell, Cumberland. 



Investigations of the Upper Air by means of kites and 

 balloons, in cooperation with other organisations. 



Lectures of an educational nature have also been arranged 

 from time to time in connection with local natural history 

 societies, schools, and other bodies. 



On the discontinuance of the maintenance of the observing 

 stations the Society took in hand, in association with the 

 Meteorological Office, a comprehensive discussion of the large 

 mass of climatological data which has become available for 

 the British Isles, with the view of its presentation in carto- 

 graphical form in an Atlas, and some progress had been 

 made with the work when activities had to be suspended 

 on account of the war. It is hoped to renew this work as 

 soon as circumstances permit. There are also many other 

 problems awaiting discussion and vast masses of data 



