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Report of the Kew Observatory Committee. 



Number tested in the year 





ending December 3 1 . 





1897. 



1898. 





5 



1 





3 



11 





77 



169 





17 



9 





167 



122 





101 



58 





• 30 



55 





661 



374 





51 



44 





4 



3 





292 



463 





5 



5 





1U 



-LO 





2 



2 



J £ 



707 



681 





27 



12 





31 



10 







2 





694 



750 





10 



15 





29 



26 



Thermometers, Avitreous, or Imnrisch's 



5 



10 





17,270 



17,962 





119 



79- 





37 



56 





30 



38 





71 



94 



„ Meteorological 



2,874 



3,290 







2 





1 1 K 



LI/ 



fid 



DO 



Tin iniQ 



■i 4 



6 





4 







3 







23,457 



24,434 



Duplicate copies of corrections have been supplied in 84 cases. 

 The number of instruments rejected in 1897 and 189S on account 

 of excessive error, or for other reasons, was as follows : — 



