The Second Instalment of the Ben Nevis Observations

Abstract

THE forty-second volume of the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh is devoted to the publication of five years' observations at the Ben Nevis, Observatories, in continuation of those included, in vol. xxxiv. of the same series of Transactions published in 1890, with appendices consisting of discussions of the results. It is edited by Dr. Buchan, the meteorological secretary to the directors of the observatories, and Mr. R. T. Otnond, honorary superintendent of the observatories. The cost of printing is borne by the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh. The observations include hourly readings and summaries of the meteorological elements, together with entries in the log book at the summit station for the five years 1888–1892, and readings, five times daily, at the public i school, Fort William, from January, 1888, to December,:1890; also the hourly readings with various summaries for the Fort William Observatory from the establishment of that institution in the autumn of 1900. There have also been added tables of mean hourly values of the barometer, temperature, &c., at Ben Nevis and Fort William Observatories, computed to the end of 1896, with mean monthly temperatures deduced from independent observations in the Stevenson screen at Fort William for the period August 1, 1890, to December 31, 1896, and differences between the observations in the Stevenson screen and the thermograph screen of the Observatory It is almost needless to say that the publication of these tables will be welcomed as representing the primary results of an enormous amount of patient and painstaking labour, controlled by a representative board of directors of conspicuous distinction and carried put by a body of enthusiastic observers in circumstances of no, little difficulty.:—