256 Mr. Read’s Meteorological Journal, & c. 
description of the improved atmospheric apparatus, which has 
been used for the foregoing observations. 
I must now close that regular account which, for the last 
two years, has daily occupied my attention. Should any very 
remarkable appearances, however, in future take place, during 
a long course of frosty weather, which is the only state of the 
atmosphere that I have not yet experienced,* as my apparatus 
will continue in order, I shall carefully note them, and present 
them to the Royal Society : hoping that some more able philo- 
sopher may be induced to take his share of labour in this in- 
teresting and promising field, in order to investigate, as far as 
possible, the nature of so active, universal, and, in all probabi- 
lity, important an agent, as the atmospherical electricity seems 
to be ; and to pursue the subject, with that diligence, and un- 
prejudiced accuracy, which has been my principal object in the 
course of my observations. 
* As I do not remember that there have been twenty-four hours of hard frost, during 
the two last winters. 
