XXXIX. Report upon the Meteorological Observations made 

 in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, during the 

 Year 1825. 



Read February 7, 1826. 



1 h e Garden Committee having, on the 28th of February, 

 1825, resolved that it was expedient that a Meteorological 

 Journal should be kept in the Garden of the Society, a plan 

 for carrying this resolution into effect was prepared, and some 

 instruments were procured in time to commence the obser- 

 vations on the 1st of the following May. From the difficulty, 

 however, of obtaining efficient instruments, the tables of ob- 

 servations, up to the end of 1825, are not in a state sufficiently 

 perfect to justify their publication. The present Report, there- 

 fore, is made only with the view of offering a few remarks 

 upon the state of the atmosphere during one of the driest 

 summers which has been experienced in Great Britain for 

 many years. 



From the 1st of January, 1826, the Journal of Observations 

 has been carried on with instruments of the most perfect con- 

 struction, and on a more enlarged plan than that first pre- 

 pared. For a detailed account of this plan, and of the instru- 

 ments employed, as well as for an explanation of the nature of 

 several of the observations, particularly of those relating to 

 humidity and radiation, reference may be made to a succeed- 

 ing Report which will detail the plan to be pursued and the 

 instruments to be employed in conducting a course of Meteo- 

 rological Observations in the Garden. 



