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just named, their forecasts would deserve the title of prophecies 
instead of probabilities. 
It inaj be of some interest to the readers of the ' Journal ' to 
learn what has been the value of the forecasts issued by the 
Meteorological Office during the last two years. In order to 
put their system to a practical test, the Meteorological Council 
have in each of the years made proposals in the month of June 
to the Royal Agricultural Society, the Highland Society, and 
the Royal Dublin Society. The proposal was to send daily 
forecasts gratis during the hay-season to a number of observers 
selected by the Councils of the Societies, on two conditions : 
that the forecasts should be made known as widely as possible, 
and that a record should be kept of the value of each pre- 
diction. 
The Council of the Royal Agricultural Society entered most 
cordially into the scheme, and the following list of recipients 
of the forecasts was ultimately prepared. The districts for 
which the forecasts are drawn up are eleven in number, being 
identical with those for which averages are given in the Weekly 
Weather Reports ; and it will be seen that some of the districts 
are less completely represented than others ; but this is unavoid- 
able in making arrangements of such a novel character. In 
Ireland especially the number of stations was extremely small. 
Scotland N \ Joass, Golspie. 
' I J. E. Mitchell, Drynie, Inverness.* 
/ J. Annand, Inverurie.* 
I The Earl of Strathmore, Glamis by Forfar. 
I "W. S. McDonald, Craigielaw, Longniddry. 
Cp^my .™ -p / C. S. Prance, Bank House, Penicuik. f 
SCOTLAND, J.M'Gregor, Ladywell, Dunkeld.f 
I J. Fortune, Katho.f 
W. Allan, Gogar, Edinburgh.! 
\ Eev. W. P. Eobinson, D.D., Glenalmond-f 
{Jacob Wilson, Woodhorn Manor, Morpeth. 
J. Turner, Ulceby. 
W. Scarth, Eaby Castle, Darlington-f 
(J. B. Lawes, F.E.S., Eothamsted. 
Messrs. Eansome and Sims, Ipswich. f 
D. M'Intosh, Havering Park, Eomford.f 
{W. T. Carrington, Croxden Abbey, Uttoxeter.* 
The Eoyal Agricultural College, Cirencester. 
The Duke of Somerset, Bulstrode, Bucks.* 
Major Dasliwood, Kirtlington, Oxford. f 
E. E, Fowler, Prebendal Farm, Aylesbury.f 
Fnot Awn i ^- Whitehead, Barming House, Maidstone. 
' IE. P. Squarey, The Moot, Downton, Wilts. 
* Those marked with an asterisk received the forecasts only in 1880 ; those 
marked with a dagger only in 1879. All the rest received them in both years. 
