718 SEC, 14. METEOROLOGY. 



2913d. Meteorological Diagrams. Meteorological Office. 



1 storm charts. 

 List of stations. 

 Colliery explosions and weather. 



2914. Map of Scotland, showing the Society's stations, the 

 prevailing winds, and the annual rainfall. 



Scottish Meteorological Society. 



The present stations are indicated by a black circle, and stations at which 

 observations are no longer made by a circle and a cross. Rainfall stations 

 by a red circle. Constructed by Alexander Buchan, M.A., F.R.S.E., 

 Secretary. 



2915. Temperature of the British Islands, for each 

 month and for the year. Scottish Meteorological Society. 



On all the maps the isothermals up to 44 are coloured black ; those from 

 45 to 54 are coloured blue ; and those from 55 and upwards are coloured 

 red. Prepared by Alexander Buchan, F.R.S.E., Secretary, and published in 

 the Society's Journal, vol. iii. p. 102. 



2916. Seasonal Distribution of the Rainfall of Europe, 



showing the month of greatest rainfall and the month of least rain- 

 fall of its different regions. Scottish Meteorological Society. 

 The months from November to February are coloured blue ; from March 

 to May, green ; from June to August, red ; and September and October, 

 black. Prepared by Alexander Buchan, Secretary. 



2917. Charts, showing the mean monthly and annual amount 

 of the diurnal oscillation of the barometer over the globe, from the 

 a.m. maximum to the p.m. minimum, by lines of 10, 20, 40, 60, 80, 

 and 100 (and upwards) thousandths of an inch (O'OIO, 0-020 

 inches, &c.). Scottish Meteorological Society. 



The portions shaded red indicate an oscillation of O'lOO inch and upwards. 

 Prepared by Alexander Buchan, Esq., F.R.S.E., Secretary of the Society, 

 and published in Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xxvii. p. 397. 



2918. Charts, showing by isobaric lines the mean pressure of 

 the atmosphere, and by arrows the prevailing winds over the globe 

 for each month. Scottish Meteorological Society. 



Isobarics of 30 inches and upwards are coloured red, and those under 

 30 inches blue. Thus the red isobarics indicate where pressure is in excess, 

 and the blue isobarics where the pressure is in defect. 



Calms are marked with a circle, and variable winds with an asterisk. The 

 arrows fly with the wind. 



Constructed by Alexander Buchan, F.R.S.E., and published in Trans. 

 Roy. Soc. Ediii., vol. xxv., p. 575. 



2919. Diagrams, showing for London the influence of weather 

 on mortality from different diseases and at different ages. No. I. 



Scottish Meteorological Society. 

 Mortality classed according to 



A. Age (average of 5 years). Under 5 years coloured red; 5 to. 40, 

 blue ; 40 and upwards, black. 



