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ON THE CLIMATOLOGY OF AFRICA. 495 
The Climatology of Africa.—Fifth Report of a Committee, consisting 
of Mr. E. G. RavENsTEIN (Chairman), Sir JonN Kirk, Mr. G. J. 
Symons, Dr. H. R. Mitt, and Mr. H. N. Dickson (Secretary). 
(Drawn up by the Chairman.) 
METEOROLOGICAL journals have been received in the course of last year 
from eighteen places in Tropical Africa. 
Niger Territories—We have a register from Captain Gallwey’s old 
station (Warri), as also from a new station (Sapele), opened last year, 
about thirty miles to the north-west of the former. In nextyear’s report we 
hope to be able to publish abstracts of important observations made by 
officials of the Royal Niger Company, which Sir George Taubman-Goldie 
has promised to communicate. 
Congo.—The Rey. R. Glennie, the oldest and most constant corre- 
spondent of your Committee, has forwarded another year’s register for 
Bolobo. No information has been received from the Gaboon. A set of 
instruments, with full instructions, has been furnished, on payment, to 
the Rev. Phillips Verner, who left for the Kasai in November last. 
Nyasaland.—The only record received is one by Commander C. Hope 
Robertson, communicated by Mr. Robert H. Scott, the Secretary of the 
Meteorological Council; but we understand that Mr. Moir, who has been 
entrusted with a complete set of instruments, intends to read a paper 
on the Meteorology of Nyasaland at the Liverpool meeting of the 
Association. Sir Harry Johnston, who is at present in England, takes 
much interest in the work of your Committee, and there is some hope of 
organising a carefully considered scheme for meteorological work through- 
out the Protectorate so ably administered by him. 
British East Africa.—Observations have been received from thirteen 
stations. Unfortunately, owing to the disturbed state of the country and 
to administrative changes, some of the registers are imperfect. The 
Foreign Office has met the wishes of your Committee in the most gratifying 
manner. Instructions have been given by Mr. Hardinge, Her Majesty’s 
Commissioner, to have meteorological returns kept, and these will be sent 
to us for publication. 
Three sets of instruments (including barometers and anemometers) 
have been forwarded by the Foreign Office to Uganda, and since the 
beginning of this year observations on the water-level of the Victoria 
Nyanza are being made by means of gauges erected at Port Alice and 
Port Victoria. 
Transvaal._An old series of observations made by Mr. W. H. Jessop 
on the Lataba River have been communicated by Dr. H. R. Mill, and 
further communications of the same class are very desirable. 
The abstracts for Bolobo, Warri, Sapele, and Lataba River, which 
accompany this report were made by the Secretary, and those for the 
remaining stations by the Chairman of your Committee. The barometer 
readings, unless stated otherwise, have been reduced to 32° and corrected 
for gravity, but no attempt has been made to reduce them to the sea- 
level. This can only be done after the altitude of the stations shall have 
been determined by spirit-levelling, and with the extension of railway 
surveys this information is likely to be forthcoming at an early date. 
Your Committee have expended the 10/. granted. They beg to pro- 
pose that they be reappointed, and that a grant be made of 20/, 
