ART. X. — Report of the Committee appointed to continue the Me- 

 teorological Observations, on the 2lst of March, June, 

 September and December, 



Containing hourly observations of the Barometer, Thermometer, 

 Winds, Weather, 8fc. made at different places on the 2\st and 22d 

 of December, 1836— and meteorological tables from Illinois, Flo- 

 rida, JSTew-York City, Albany, Montral, Quebec, L. C. and Am- 

 sterdam in Holland. 



[Accepted March 2, 1837.] 



In compliance with the resolution of the Institute, the commit- 

 tee on meteorology present the following 



REPORT. 



More than a year has elapsed since it became known in this 

 country, that the South African Literary and Philosophical Insti- 

 tution had, on the suggestion of Sir John F. W. Herschel, deter- 

 mined to set apart four days in each year to be devoted to a most 

 scrupulous and accurate registry of the state of the barometer and 

 thermometer; the direction and force of the wind; the quantity, 

 character and distribution of clouds, and every other particular of 

 weather throughout the whole 24 hours of those days, and the ad- 

 joining 6 hours of the days preceding and following, reckoned as- 

 tronomically. And to recommend a similar determination to me- 

 teorologists in every part of the world, with a view to the better 

 determining of the laws of the diurnal changes taking place in the 

 atmosphere, and to the obtaining of a knowledge of the corre- 

 spondence of its movements and affections over great regions of the 

 earth's surface or even over the whole globe. The days fixed 



