72 Remarks on the recent Conference at Vienna on 
J. S. I!. Ballingall, Eallabus House, May. 
C. H. H. Wilson, of Dalnair, Drymun Station, 
N.B.* 
J. Chisholm, Chapel Rossan, Stranraer.* 
Sir J. W. Orde, Bart., Auchnaba House, Lochgilp- 
head.t 
The Earl of Derby, Knowsley. 
G. W. Wray, Leyburn, Yorkshire. 
D. R. Davies, Agden Hall, Lymru, Warrington. 
A. Ashworth, Egerton Hall, ]3olton-le-Moors.t 
The Earl of Ducie, Tort worth Park, Gloucestershire. 
T. Dyke, Long Ashton, Clifton, Bristol. 
E. Neville, Butleigh Court, Glastonbury. 
J. Simson, Cloona Castle, Ballinrobe. 
Dr. Bentley, Oldcastle, Co. Meath.f 
D. A. Milward, New Ross. 
Several of the recipients took great interest in the experi- 
ments, and in more than one case considerable trouble and 
expense were incurred by them to ensure the speedy dissemina- 
tion of the intelligence. Of this some evidence is afforded by 
the following extract from a letter on the subject : 
" The forecasts were despatched daily (Sunday excepted) from 
the London Office between 4 and 5 o'clock P.M. to our nearest 
post-office, distance about 3 miles from my residence, and they 
usually reached me about 5h. 45m. P.M. by a messenger who 
travelled on a velocipede. First, a copy of the telegram was 
retained and posted at the post-office (the place being a village 
with a considerable population), then over a district letter-box 
on the highway between two large towns, and at a meeting of 
cross roads 2^ miles from the receiving office. I had a small 
box with glass face, under lock and key, fixed over the letter- 
box, where the messenger deposited another copy of the telegram 
on his way here. This was again repeated 2 miles further on 
the same highway, and the meeting of cross roads in a village, 
over the letter-box there. A copy from here was again posted a 
mile off in another direction. By this means a tolerably wide 
circulation was obtained, most acceptable to my neighbours, and 
for which I was repeatedly thanked." 
It is impossible for the Office to express too warmly its sense 
of the value of the co-operation and assistance it received, not 
only from the writer of the above letter, but from all those who 
undertook to conduct the experiment. 
In analysing the numerical results, however, some difficulty 
Scotland, W. .. 
England, N. W. . . 
England, S.W. .. 
Ieeland, N. 
Ieeland, S 
* Those marked with an asterisk received the forecasts only in 1880 ; those 
luarked with a dagger only in 1879. All the rest received them in both years. 
