1876.] Report of the Meteorological Committee. 



195 



"With reference to the Recommendations contained in the Report of 

 the Committee of Inquiry (1866) in relation to the subject of Ocean 

 Meteorology (p. 15 of their Eeport) it may be said : — 



As regards the works 

 and discussions of 

 observations now in 

 progress. 



As regards the col- 

 lection of further 

 observations. 



As regards the method 

 of extracting the 

 observations. 



As regards the method 

 of discussing and 

 tabulating the re- 

 sults of observations 

 when extracted. 



e. As regards the publi- 

 cation of meteoro- 

 logical results. 



/. As regards the publi- 

 cation of other re- 

 sults useful to navi- 

 gation. 



Recommendations have been carried out 

 in principle, but with such variations in 

 detail as appeared necessary. 



Recommendations have been carried out 

 as closely as it was found feasible to do so. 



The plan of loose cards suggested was 

 tried for a certain time, but was subsequently 

 given up for another (described in the Re- 

 port of the Meteorological Committee for 

 1867, pp. 8 and 60) which experience showed 

 to be preferable. 



These recommendations have not been 

 fully carried out; on the one hand the 

 work has been conducted to a much greater 

 degree of minuteness and over more limited 

 areas than was contemplated in the report, 

 such a plan being considered to afford re- 

 sults of a more valuable character in the 

 interests of navigation. 



On the other hand, with every desire to 

 carry out the recommendations of the Re- 

 port, it has not been found practicable to 

 iveight the observations, and consequently to 

 assign the degree of probable precision to the 

 results. 



The recommendations have been carried 

 out in principle but not to the letter. The 

 publications of the Office have been more 

 methodical than those criticised in ihe report. 



The recommendations as regards com- 

 munication of hyclrographical notices to the 

 Admiralty have been fully carried out. The 

 report, however, did not apparently con- 

 template the publication of any data in the 

 form of charts by the Meteorological Office ; 

 it was, however, considered by the Meteoro- 

 logical Committee that for certain purposes, 

 as indicated by the foregoing statement, the 

 form of a chart was preferable to ordinary 

 letterpress. 



