BULLETIN 
OF THE 
GENERAL MEETING. 
244TH MEETING. JANUARY 5, 1884, 
The President in the Chair. 
Twenty-eight members and guests present. 
The Chair announced the death, since the last meeting, of 
General A. A. HumpHreys, one of the founders of the Society. 
Mr. J. R. EAstMAan made a communication on 
THE ROCHESTER (MINNESOTA) TORNADO, 
describing the ground as it appeared a few days after the storm, 
and showing that the phenomena did not indicate cyclonic motion. 
All disturbed objects were thrown in essentially the same direction, 
and were pressed down rather than lifted. 
Mr. Exxiorr related that twenty-five years previous he had 
crossed a storm-track consisting of a double line of fallen timber, 
with an interval in which the timber was standing. Mr. Eastman 
thought this phenomenon should be referred to two separate 
cyclones, possibly moving as companions. 
Mr. Dauu described storm tracks in the Escanaba region in 
which the trunks of prostrate trees pointed uniformly in one 
direction, the path of destruction being definitely limited at the 
margins. 
Mr. E. Farquaar suggested that a highly inclined storm axis 
might account for the uniformity in the direction of the wind in 
the zone of destruction. 
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