4U REPORT — 1887. 



four years with this negative result, they are of opinion that the Com- 

 mittee should now be dissolved.' 



In consequence of this resolution the Committee have not drawn 

 the 201. voted at Birmingham, and tbey do not now request their 

 reappointment. 



Final Report of the Committee, consisting of ^Ir. E. H. Scott 

 (Secretary), Mr. J. Norman Lockter, Professor Gr. Gr. Stokes, 

 Professor Balfour Stewart, and Mr. J. Gr. Simons, appointed 

 in August 1881, and re-appointed in 1 882-3 and 4 to co-operate 

 ivith the Meteorological Society of the Mauritius in the publica- 

 tion of Daily Synoptic Charts of the Indian Ocean for the 

 year 1861. {Draivn up by Mr. Robert H. Scott.) 



yoUR Committee have to report that the sum of 50Z. originally granted 

 in 1881 has now been expended, and they enclose herewith a receipt for 

 the amount, showing its disposition, from the Treasurer of the Mauritius 

 Meteorological Society. 



Dr. Meldrum, in a letter to the Secretary, dated June 4, 1887, says : ' I 

 am requested by the President and Council of our Meteorological Society 

 to convey to yourself and the British Association their very best thanks, 

 and to say that the Society will forward to the Association, through you, 

 two copies of each of the publications that have been issued.' 



The following is a list of these publications : — 



1. Daily Synoptic Weather Charts of the Indian Ocean for the months 

 of January, February, and March, 1861. The charts for the remaining 

 months of 1861, and remarks to accompany the moiiths already published, 

 are in preparation. 



2. Tabular Statements of the number of Gales experienced monthly 

 between the parallels of 20° S. and 46° S., and the meridians of 0° and 

 120° E. during the last 39 years. 



Dr. Meldrum further states that the following works are nearly ready 

 for publication : — 



I. Synoptic Weather Charts of the Indian Ocean for January 1860, in 

 the course of which month a typical tropical cyclone took place. 



II. The Tracks of the Tropical Cyclones in the Indian Ocean, south of 

 the Equator, from 1848 to 1886, as far as is known, together with the 

 observations from which the tracks have been deduced. 



III. The Mean Pressure and Temperature of the Indian Ocean for five 

 degrees square, in the months of January and July. 



IV. Synoptic Charts of the Indian Ocean for each day, during the last 

 39 yeai's, in which it is known that a cyclone existed. 



V. The Average Limits in the Indian Ocean of the South-East Trade 

 in each month, and of the Noi'th-West Monsoon from November to 

 May. 



