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Ordinary Meeting, February 5th, 1867. 
Edward Schunck, Pli.D., F.R.S., &c., President, in the 
Chair. 
Commander Alexandre Cialdi, of Rome, and Dr. Edward 
Schonfeld, Director of the Mannheim Observatory, were 
elected Corresponding Members of the Society, 
Mr. Baxendell read the following letter from Sir J, F 
W. Herschel, Bart., M.A., F.R.S., &c., dated Collingwood, 
February 2, 1867 : — 
“ May I be permitted to offer a remark to the Lit. and Phil. 
Society on the very striking fact mentioned in Monsr. Buys 
Ballot’s letter on storm warnings in the report of the last 
meeting of the Society (‘Proceedings,’ vol. vi. p. 83) — where, 
speaking of the gales of wind that accompany great baro- 
metric fluctuations he observes : ‘ It is a fact above all doubt 
that the wind that comes is nearly at right angles to the 
line between the places of highest and lowest barometer 
readings. The wind has the point of lowest height on its 
left hand.’ 
“In my paper in ‘Good Words’ on the weather and 
weather prophets, published in January, 1864, (and written 
in November, 1863) the fact of this perpendicularity of 
direction of the wind to that of the wave’s advance, in the 
case of the hurricanes which accompany the ‘great Novem- 
ber wave’ is noticed ; and in a few words added to the 
Proceedings— Lit. & Phil. Society.— Vol. VI.— No. 10— Session 1866-7. 
