346 PROCEEDINGS, 
e storm and its effects can be traced. This must 
serious hurricane. In land and in Europe the same —. 
ce had been obtained, though the observations had e 
complete. In America they have a much more extended country; 
so bring it under 
observation, whereas in d they could only see one half on 
storm, which often envelopes the whole of the island ; but eek 
cosas of Europe in many places observations of the most 
Coming nearer home, until 1879 we were sending gO 
between the different Colonies at some disadvantage for WM. 
of co-operation. uestion was whether the atmospherie “a 
rule was the same in the southern hemisphere as in the 
le 
In 1879, at the first Meteorological Conference, it was ® 
more united action among the different Colonies, 
- result had been in published in the prone? 
. 
‘or som: a 
no important storm had reached New Zealand but they 
sent Dr. Hector three or five days’ notice of its approach. 
