History of the Kew Observatory. 



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of the instruments at the several stations. Tlie Report for 1868 

 contains an account of the work done at Kew as the Central Observa- 

 tory of the Meteorological Committee, in which it is stated that this 

 work may be divided into four heads : — 



(1) The arrangement of the self-recording meteorological instru- 



ments, their verification at Kew, and erection at the 

 various stations. 



(2) The arrangement of a system of tabulation from the 



automatic records of these instruments. 



(3) The arrangement of a system by means of which the 



accuracy of the instruments themselves, and of their 

 tabulated records, may be secured. 



(4) Work done at Kew as being itself one of the Observatories 



of the Meteorological Committee. 

 In 1869 we learn inter alia that Mr. Beckley had devised his self- 

 recording rain gauge, an account of which was submitted to the 

 British Association at Exeter. At the close of the year, in October, 

 Dr. Stewart resigned the Secretaryship of the Meteorological Com- 

 mittee, and the relations between the Kew Committee and the 

 Meteorological Office were consequently modified. 



