100 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 
Miss Margaret White has undertaken an analytical study of the 
records obtained, and proposes to give a short account of the results of 
the work at the coming meeting of the British Association. 
Recently the Government Grant Committee of the Royal Society 
have awarded the funds required to complete and perfect the apparatus 
installed at this station. 
Meteorological Observations on Ben Nevis.—Report of the Committee, 
consisting of Lord McLaren (Chairman), Professor Crum Brown 
(Secretary), Sir Joun Murray, Professor F. W. Dyson, and Mr. 
R. T. Omonp. 
As mentioned in the report for 1905, the meteorological observations 
on Ben Nevis have now ceased, but the Committee have co-operated with 
the Scottish Meteorological Society in the discussion of the observations 
made on Ben Nevis and at Fort William during the twenty-one years 
that the observations were carried on. This discussion was conducted 
under the direction of the late Dr. Alexander Buchan, but owing to his 
death on May 13 last no report can be furnished this year. It is 
proposed that the discussion be continued by Mr. Omond and others 
during the ensuing year. 
The observations made at the high and low level observatories from 
the opening of the Ben Nevis Observatory in 1883 till the end of 1897 
have been published, and those for two additional years—1898 and 
1899—are in type. The observations to the end of 1887 were published 
by the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The cost of printing those of the 
succeeding twelve years—1888 to 1899 inclusive—has been defrayed by 
a grant of 500/. from the Royal Society of London and another grant of 
500/. from the Royal Society of Edinburgh. There still remain nearly five 
years’ observations in manuscript—namely, from January 1900 to Septem- 
ber 1904. The Committee consider it exceedingly desirable that these 
last observations should also be published, so that the whole record from 
the Ben Nevis Observatory be made available to meteorologists. 
The estimated cost of printing these observations is 400/., and towards 
this the Royal Society of Edinburgh has offered a grant of 200/., spread 
over four years, on condition that the remainder of the money be obtained 
from other sources The Royal Society of London has voted 50/. for this 
object, so that there is still a sum of 150/. required to make up the 4001. 
necessary for the complete publication of the Ben Nevis records. 
The Committee hope that the British Association will see its way to 
make up this deficiency by a grant from its funds, so as to enable the 
printing to go forward. The Committee beg to point out that it is some 
years since a grant was asked for the Ben Nevis work, and that at present 
there are no funds available for the purpose except what have been pro- 
mised by the two scientific societies, 
