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the National Pliysical Laboratory, as well as in the Annual Report of the 

 Eoyal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. They appear as satisfactory as in 

 previous years. 



The instruments were inspected in September 1905 by Mr. T. W. 

 Baker, who took some absolute observations showing a satisfactory 

 accordance with those taken by Mr. Kitto. 



Dr. Chree has published ' A comparison of the results from the Fal- 

 mouth Declination aad Horizontal Force Magnetographs on quiet days 

 in years of Sun- Spot maximum and minimum ' in the ' Transactions ' of 

 the Cambridge Philosophical Society, vol. xx. 1906 ; the results are 

 closely analogous to, but in some respects more complete than, those 

 deduced from his earlier papers dealing with the Kew curves. 



The Committee regret to learn that the new Observatory at Eskdale 

 Muir continues to make somewhat slow progi'ess and will not be ready 

 until some time in 1907. In view of the importance of maintaining con- 

 tinuity of the magnetic records, they ask for reappointment with a grant 

 of 50^. 



Meteorological Observations on Ben Nevis. — Repoi-t of the Committee, 

 consisting of Lord McLaren, Professor Crum Brown (Secretary), 

 Sir John Murray, Dr. Alexander Buchan, and Mr. K. T. 

 Omond. (Drawn up by Dr. Buchan.) 



The Committee, which was in former years appointed for the purpose of 

 co-operating with the Scottish Meteorological Society in making meteoro- 

 logical observations at the two Ben Nevis Observatories, has, since the 

 closing of these observatories in October 1904, devoted its attention to 

 the publication and discussion of the observations made at these obser- 

 vatories. 



The Hourly Observations from the opening of the Ben Nevis Obser- 

 vatories in 1883 to the end of 1897 have now been published by the 

 Royal Society of Edinburgh, assisted by a grant of 500^. from the 

 Publications Fund of the Royal Society of London. They form Volumes 

 34, 42, and 43 of the ' Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.' 

 The last of these volumes was issued during the current year. These 

 volumes contain, in addition to the hourly observations, a resum^ of the 

 hourly values for each individual year ; and the last published volume, 

 being Vol. 43 of ' Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,' gives, 

 in addition, the hourly values of the observations made from the opening 

 of the observatories, in 1883, to October 1904. In this volume papers are 

 also given in which the observations are discussed in relation to weather 

 and to atmospheric physics. 



In the meantime arrangements are made for the continuation of these 

 large discussions, which it is contemplated will occupy about three 

 years. 



