ON METEOBOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS ON BEN NEVIS. 



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nations of storms and other pheDomena made at the Scottish lighthouses, 

 as described in previous reports, and the bi-daily charts of the Meteoro- 

 logical Office. One of the points to which attention will be specially given 

 ■will be to ascertain the earliest time at which storms, seen to be advancing 

 over the Atlantic towards Europe, could be signalled from the Ben Nevis 

 observations in combination with observations at lower levels ; and, 

 further, to endeavour from an investigation of the bearings of the Ben 

 Nevis observations on the movements and courses of anticyclones and 

 cyclones to ascertain the path the advancing cyclone will take, whether 

 to the north of, across, or to the south of the British Islands in its 

 easterly course. 



As the British Association is aware, youi* Committee have from the 

 commencement insisted on the necessity of an observatory at Fort 

 "William, near sea-level, at which hourly observations can be recorded, in 

 order that the observations made at the top of Ben Nevis may be properly 

 utilised in their scientific and practical bearings. 



With reference to this low-level observatory a copy of the Report of 

 the Council of the Scottish Meteorological Society, dated July 23, is sent 

 herewith, with a passage marked on page 2 giving a correspondence with 

 the Meteorological Council, who offer a grant towards the maintenance 

 of the low-level observatory, ' which they regard as a very important 

 adjunct to the existing high-level observatory,' and further to equip the 

 observatory with the required outfit of meteorological instruments. The 

 directors have applied to the Association of the Edinburgh International 

 Exhibition of 1886 for a grant from their surplus fund towards the 

 building of the observatory at Fort William, and they are in good 

 hopes that they will in a month or two be in a position to commence the 

 building. 



Table I. — Showing the Hourly Variations from the Mean Atmospheric 

 Pressure {expressed in Thousandths of an Inch) from the four years^ 

 observations ending with 1887. 



