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COLONEL SYKES’S PAPER ON INDIAN METEOROLOGY. xx ;]|
them, and of which 500 copies had been desired by the Court of Directors The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs. to be sent out for the
use of meteorologists at the different presidencies, the Secretary pointed out that the barometric
curves at the conclusion were copies from those on the walls of the Society’s Library—duly
acknowledged;—die also noticed that the papers he had formerly laid before them on hail
storms and on meteors had been deemed worthy of being read before the British Association,
and would appear in their Transactions. He mentioned these things, as a difference of opinion
seemed to prevail on the spot on the value of the enquiries under consideration : the Royal
Society and British Association were of the same views as the majority of the Bombay
Society.*
In reference to the letter of Government, in which it was intimated that the question of the
purchase or return of the instruments belonging to Government now under charge of the
Society, had been referred to the Court of Directors The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs. , it was stated that this was the shortest
and simplest means of getting the Admiralty grant made in some way or other available—that
meanwhile the Society would go on with its work as before. Attention was directed to the
excellence of a set of observations by Dr. Don at Kurrachee—the first they had received through
Government where all the conditions had been attended to.
* The matter, like many other of the occurrences, has been omitted in the Athenceum?s
notice. The following extract is from a letter of the Secretary to the Association “ Your
collection of hailstorms was sent me by Professor Powell to show off at Edinburgh, and
did I not astonish the lieges by thumping their brains with hailstones as big as their fists !
I will send you what I said on your part when printed.”—Professor Powell’s analysis of the
list of meteors appears in the published notices of the Transactions.
The Ordinary Monthly Meeting of the Bombay Geographical Society took place in their rooms,
on Thursday, the 23rd January 1851, the Hon’ble J. P. Willoughby, Esquire, President,
in the Chair.—Present: A. Malet, Esquire, Chief Secretary to Government; Commander
Jenkins, I. N. ; Captain H. J. Barr; John Smith, Esquire; Juggonath Sunkersett, Esq.;
Venaikrow Jagonathjee, Esq. ; and Dr. G. Buist, and Professor J. Patton, Joint Secretaries.
The minutes of last meeting were read and approved of. In reference to the instructions
given to the Secretary on the subject of obtaining meteorological information from Zanzibar*
the Mauritius, and Ceylon, it was stated that Major Hamerton, the Resident at the Court of
H. H. the Imaum of Muscat, had been written to in terms of the instructions of the Society ;
that the communications desired to be addressed to the Secretary of the Ceylon Society, and
to Mr. Meldrum of the Royal College Mauritius, had been delayed until the arrival of the
instruments belonging to the Society intended for distribution: these had just been received,
and the letters in question would be dispatched without delay. The Military Board required
to be communicated with on the subject of setting up the Self-Registering Wind and Rain-
Gauge at Poona. The Commissariat had taken charge of the Tide Gauge Frame for Kurra
chee ; and Mr. Dalzell had written stating that the new pier at Vingorla supplied an eminently
suitable place for the tide-guage at the station, for which it had hitherto been most difficult to
provide a suitable locality. Mr. Mayes, on his return from Aden, would be dispatched to set
the operations at all these places agoing.—The report of the Committee on Papers on the
recommendation of Dr. Ford, that the Paper of Colonel Sykes on the Meteorology of India
should be reprinted from the Philosophical Transactions, being brought up, it appeared that
the Committee recommended that instead of a reprint of the Paper, which would cost some
Rs. 300 or Rs. 400, being considered desirable, Government should be applied to for such