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the Bombay system, and prompt remedial measures were taken as 

 far as possible by Mr. Eliot. A local daily -weather report and 

 chart is now published and issued daily ; a new storm signalling 

 system has been devised, and steps have been taken to improve the 

 representation of Kathiawar in the meteorological system. 



On the Sth May 1889, Mr. H. F. Blanford retired, after a 

 connexion with the Meteorological Department of 22 years. He 

 was appointed Meteorological Eeporter to the Government of 

 Bengal in June, 1867, and initiated the local meteorological system 

 and the storm warning service for the port of Calcutta after the 

 experience of the cyclone of October 1864. When it was determined 

 to combine the various provincial systems into a common Meteoro- 

 logical Department for the whole of India, Mr. Blanford was called 

 upon to report on the best means of carrying this into effect. His 

 suggestions were approved, and he was appointed Meteorological 

 Reporter to the Government of India. The series of Annual 

 Reports and Papers written by him for the Indian Meteorological 

 Memoirs form a most valuable contribution to meteorological 

 science. Since his retirement he has published "A Practical Guide 

 " to the Climates and Weather of India, Ceylon, and Burma, and 

 " the Storms of the Indian Seas," which gives an admirable 

 summary of the results of meteorological obsetwations taken in 

 [ndia, and presents in a clear and interesting manner the more 

 important features of the climates and weather in India. The 

 nut expressed its high value of his services in the 

 following terms : — 



"I am to take this opportunity to record the higli estimate which has been formed 

 by His Excellency the Governor-General in Council of the zeal and ability displayed 

 during the several years of his incumbency of the office of Meteorological 

 Eeporter to the Government of India by Mr. Blanford, who has no"' retired 

 from the service, and who was practically the founder of systematic and uniform 

 meteorological observations in India." 



During 1889-90, six third-class observatories were established 

 within India itself, while observations were also obtained for the 

 first time after a long interval "from the observatory at Trivandrum 

 maintained by the Maharajah of Travancore, and from that at 

 Bhavnagar maintained by the Thakur of that State. Voluntary 

 observatories were established at Skortt's Island near Chandabally, 

 and at Lungleh in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, during the past year, 

 and useful observations obtained therefrom. From the distant 

 station of Zanzibar some excellent observations were obtained for 

 over a year from Dr. Charlesworth, the Medical Officer, but he was 

 then, unfortunately, invalided home, and Mr. Eliot thinks it may 



