THE COUNCIL. 
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Nation and promises of assistance from many of the resident 
gentry and clergy. Some specific answers have been returned ; 
and they have good reason to expect that in the course of 
the present year many valuable communications will be placed 
in the archives of the Museum. 
The Meteorological Committee has been engaged in pre¬ 
paring a general plan of observations on atmospheric pheno- 
menaj which they hope to cause to be executed at many stations 
contemporaneously, so as speedily to determine the principal 
elements of the local climate of Yorkshire. To effect this 
desirable combination of results, it was required not only to 
propose a good plan, but to prove its practicability with the 
ordinary means and activity of a provincial Society or the 
leisure of insulated observers. They have, therefore, been 
diligently employed in determining one of the most difficult of 
all the problems to be solved by their proposed scheme of 
observations, viz. the oscillations of the barometer at several 
hours of the day. The observations on this subject have been 
personally executed by the Secretaries so as to give results 
either exact or approximate for the last fifteen months, as 
expressed in the following table, where all the mean results 
are compared with the standard observation at 9, a. m. and 
the differences, to thousandths of an inch, in excess or defect, 
marked by the signs -j- and —. 
