142 METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, TAKEN AT CLIFTON. 
ture failed to reach 32°, as against two such days in 1882, and 
eleven in 1881. 
At the General Meeting of the Society, on March 6th, Mr. 
Jupp read a paper on “ Observation of Climate,” with more 
particular reference to the observations conducted under his 
guidance at Clifton College, and printed annually in the Pro- 
ceedings. The methods of taking these observations were 
described, and also the safeguards adopted to ensure accuracy. 
In brief, it appeared that every rule of the Meteorological 
Society is observed, except one : the readings are taken at 8.30 
a.m. instead of at 9. The paper dealt with the reasons for 
these rules, with the merits and demerits of the Stevenson 
Cage and of Glaisher’s Thermometer Stand, and with the value 
of Humidity calculations. It was decided that these are to be 
printed in the future. In conclusion, the writer urged that his 
measures could not be taken as really giving the Climate 
statistics of Clifton and Bristol, however accurate they may be 
for the particular locality of their origin — the Botanic Garden 
of Clifton College. We want, said he, six stations at least 
distributed over Bristol, and our preserved figures should be the 
means of six records, all taken under the same rules. Surely 
there are enough observers to he found ; all that is wanted is 
that they shall conform themselves and their instruments to one 
pattern. An expenditure of £5 in money once for all, and of 
ten minutes daily in time is all that is needed. Many people 
give this time now, and would have no difficulty in finding the 
money ; but for want of conformity their figures are valueless, 
or at least valueless for preservation. We want to utilise our 
waste power in Meteorology. 
