H I S TOR 



OF 



THE SOCIETY. 



IT has been thought more confident with the form which the 

 Tranfactions of the Society have affumed in this volume, to 

 arrange the abflradls and accounts of papers in the order of .the 

 fubjects, than in the order of time. Under each head, the papers 

 are placed according to the dates of their communication.. 



METEOROLOGY. 



A" Comparison' of- fome Obfervations on the Diurnal Varia- 1799. 



tions of the Barometer, made in Peyrouse's Voyage round the Dwrnaiva 7 ^ 

 world, with thofe made at Calcutta by Dr Balfour, was read 

 by ProfefTor Playfair. 



A 2 The 



tions of the ba- 

 rometer. 



