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Abstract

IN the Report submitted yesterday at Edinburgh to the half-yearly general meeting of the Scottish Meteorological Society, the Council state that the work at the Ben Nevis Observatory continues to be carried on by Mr. Omond and the assistants in the same highly satisfactory manner as has been recorded in previous Reports. In addition to the laborious work of observing at all hours of the day and night, of reducing the observations, and forwarding copies for the Society and the Meteorological Council, the staff of the Observatory has given very effective assistance in the preparation of the tables of the meteorology of Ben Nevis now in the press. Several interesting researches are being conducted at the Observatory, the results of which will be communicated to a future meeting. The Directors took steps last autumn to raise subscriptions to clear off the debt on the institution, and to establish a low-level station at Fort William, at which hourly observations may be made for comparison with those at the Observatory. It is only by two sets of observations at the top and bottom of the mountain that the Ben Nevis Observatory can be utilised, with the desired success, in the furtherance of meteorological science, but particularly in that branch of it which concerns the improvement of the system of forecasting the weather of the British Islands.