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REPORT OF THE 
on this Museum, contribute much to the general amount of 
information on this important subject, and add a fund of 
gratification to the reasonable curiosity of our members. 
The Council would wish to point out to meteorological ob¬ 
servers in Yorkshire, the propriety of their taking part in the 
great system of combined periodical observations proposed by 
Sir John Herschel in 1835, and continued at his request, and 
by the exertions of M. Quetelet, by most eminent observers 
in various parts of Europe 
It appears from this survey that our collections have again 
outgrown the means of orderly and appropriate exhibition. 
The time is come for desiring to occupy with ranges of new 
cases the few walls and limited area of floors still vacant. We 
require drawers for a numerous suite of geological specimens, 
ranges of vertical cases for the skeletons of birds, and the 
objects of antiquarian curiosity, and tables to display the 
Foreign Mollusca and Zoophyta. These are our wants in the 
Museum ; it is the opinion of the Council, that some change 
should be made in the system of warming the building, and 
that some steps should be taken towards providing the meteor¬ 
ological and astronomical observers with additional instru¬ 
ments. 
* The ohservations requested hy Sir John Herschel are fixed for the 
solstices and equinoxes ; that is to say, on the 21st December, 21st March, 
21st June, 21st September, every hour from six in the morning of the 21st, to 
six in the morning of the following day. M. Quetelet desires thirty-six hours 
observations, viz. from six a.m. of the 21st, to 6 p.m. of the 22nd. In both 
sets of observations, if the 21st be Sunday, the observations are to commence 
on the 22nd, and in M. Quetelet’s Series, if the 22nd fall on a Sunday, the 
observations take place on the 20th and 21st. M. Quetelet has recently given 
conveniently digested tables of the results communicated to him for 1841 ; but 
though his list includes twenty-four stations in Europe, there is no contri¬ 
bution from England. Bulletin de VA-Cud, Royale de Bruxettes Toiiis VIII» Re~ 
port of the Committee of the Royal Society^ 1840. 
