SCIENTIFIC SUMMARY. 
109 
Analysis of Stepanovsky Graphite. 
Samples 
No. I. No. n. 
Per Cent. Per Cent. 
Carbon 
. 36-06 
33-20 
Silica . 
. 37-72 
43-20 
Perric oxide 
. 4-02 
3-05 
Alumina 
Lime 
. 17-80 
15-42 
Magnesia J 
. 1-20 
1-06 
Volatile matter . 
. 3-20 
4-03 
Sulphur 
. traces 
0-04 
100-00 10000 
METEOROLOGY. 
Meteorology in England . — The report of the Meteorological Committee 
for 1874 has been quite recently published, and commented on by the 
u Academy ” which says : — 
The Report of the Meteorological Committee for the year 1874 has just 
appeared, and it shows that their office has carried out steadily work of the 
same nature as in former years. As regards marine meteorology, the number 
of observers remains small compared with the strength of our merchant 
navy, but the quality of the observations which are received appears to be 
good. The investigation of the nine 10-degree squares lying close to the 
equator in the Atlantic, is nearly complete, and monthly charts for this re- 
gion will shortly appear. The next district to be attacked by the office is 
the south point of Africa. 
The results of storm-warnings are much the same as in 1873, nearly 80 
per cent, of the warnings having been justified by subsequent weather, and 
more than half of that proportion having been followed by serious storms. 
In the land meteorology of the United Kingdom some important changes 
are noticed in the announcement of the satisfactory conclusion of arrange- 
ments for co-operation between the office and the Meteorological Society (of 
London), in virtue of which the Society will supply returns from certain 
selected stations for publication in extenso by the office in conjunction with 
returns from its own volunteer observers, and in accordance with the inter- 
national plan proposed by the Permanent Committee of the Vienna Con- 
gress, which has already been noticed in these pages. 
When the vote for learned societies was taken in the House of Commons, 
Mr. Maclagan moved its reduction by the sum of 1,0007, this amount to be 
transferred from the Meteorological Office to the Scottish Meteorological So- 
ciety, and was defeated ; but Mr. Smith, on the part of the Treasury, stated 
that it was the intention of that department to institute an inquiry into the 
meteorological organisations of the country in the course of the autumn . 
All meteorologists will hail this announcement as most satisfactory, as no 
such inquiry has ever yet been held except that before the Commission on 
