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the neighbouring mountains, offers an admirable site for a meteorological station, 
but the shifting snow renders the erection there of a permanent building imprac- 
ticable. The site chosen by M. Vallot was at the Rocher des Bosses, about 1,460 
feet below the summit, and here he has re-erected a wooden cabin, constructed at 
Chamonix, and carried up in pieces on the backs of guides and porters. The cabin 
is intended to serve both as a refuge for tourists and as a meteorological and 
physical observatory. The latter is completely equipped with the registering 
meteorological instruments of Richard Brothers, which operate during fifteen days 
without attention, and it is hoped to maintain them in action during four consecu- 
tive months. ‘Their installation will not be completed this year, and several inter- 
mediate stations are proposed, including a similar cabin to be erected by M. 
Janssen, the French physicist, at the Grands Mulets, at an elevation of 10,000 
feet. A base station at Chamonix (3,450 feet) is already in operation. Further 
details from the author's personal inspection will be given in the ‘ American 
Meteorological Journal.’ 
8. The Climate of Scarborough compared with that of some other Seaside 
Health Resorts! By Joun Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.Met.Soc. 
After giving reasons for inferring that meteorological observations taken con- 
tinuously during the decade 1880-89 may advantageously be utilised to deduce 
the most important elements of the climate of any place in the British Isles, the 
author showed that observations taken at Scarborough during this period fulfilled 
the necessary requirements as to accuracy and continuity, and also as to uniformity 
with those taken at other places with which he compared the principal results. 
A table showing the monthly and annual means of temperature (mean, mean 
minimum, mean maximum, and mean daily range), relative humidity, cloud, and 
rainfall, and the extremes of temperature at Scarborough, for this decade, was 
given, and the general results of comparison with the chief elements of the climate 
of four other seaside health-resorts, situated in succession at nearly equal distances 
round our coast, were summarised thus :— 
Temperature = | 
—| me | 8 2 | Raj 
; U =A |] os ain- 
1880-89 Means Extremes Za Ea fall 
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Mean | Min. | Max. | Range| Min. | Max. | 
5 é F 3 é é % | 0-10 | Ins. 
Scarborough . | 47°5 | 42:6 | 52:5 9:9) 1} 10-5.) 83'8 83 66 | 28:26 
Lowestoft . - | 48:2 | 42-4 | 53:9 | 11-5 2 | 87:0 83 68 | 24°15 
Worthing . a ADB AST OP Sb IG! | 1h 13-5e 83:3 83 59 | 26°55 
Babbacombe . | 49:9 | 440 | 55-9 | 11:9 | 15-6 | 85°6 82 70 | 33°58 
Llandudno. «| 49:2 | 44-1 | 54:3 | 10:2 | 14:5 | 84:0 79 69 | 29:13 
Mean . | 48:9 | 43-4 | 54:4 | 11-0 | 12-7 | 84:8 82 66 | 28°33 
Scarborough is thus about a degree and a half colder than the mean of the five 
places, has about a degree less mean daily range of temperature, is one per cent. 
more humid, and has the mean amount of cloud and nearly the mean rainfall. 
9. The Inland compared with the Maritime Climate of England and Wales. 
By Joun Hopkinson, F.L.8., F.G.S., F.R.Met.Soc. 
The author first endeavoured to show that the chief difficulties in making a 
satisfactory comparison between our inland and our maritime climate would be 
» Printed in extenso in the Scarborough Mercury of September 19, 1890, 
