THE COUNCIL. 
Another and still more curious subject of investigation has 
been prosecuted with unremitting attention for the last three 
years,—the determination of the quantities tof Rain falling 
at different heights above the ground. The admirable 
situation of York, the great height and accessibility of the 
Minster, and the concurrence of the authorities of the 
Church, have given to the labours of the Secretaries on 
this question a precision and completeness which has enabled 
them to present results, and to deduce consequences which, if 
they shall be confirmed by farther experiments in other situa¬ 
tions, will be found to throw a new light, not only on the 
theory of Rain but also on some other interesting problems in 
Meteorology. These experiments were instituted at the 
recommendation of the first Meeting of the British Associa¬ 
tion, in 1831, in whose volumes the record of them will be 
found; and the Council is informed that the example set at 
York, of obedience to the wishes of that great body of men 
of science, is already imitated in two localities in England, 
where the annual quantity of rain and other circumstances of 
chmate are very different. 
The phenomena of the Auroea Borealis, the construction 
of meteorological and magnetical instruments, and the impor¬ 
tant subject of subterranean temperature, have received much 
attention from several Members of the Society, and there 
can be no doubt that the impulse of the first Meeting 
of the British Association will continue to be felt in this 
Society, until that great instrument for the advancement of 
knowledge shall return to invigorate our exertions. 
Such is a brief view of the Scientific labours of the Institu¬ 
tion during the year 1834. The statements of Accounts 
which follow will fully explain the condition of its financial 
arrangements. The Annual Expenditure has been kept 
within the income by above £.?) 0 ; in spite of three un¬ 
expected sources of expense, which no prudence could have 
