Walking On Sunshine

The cost of this department

1871, the “Shipping Gazette ” has published a daily wind chart for these islands, which has been drawn at the officTwo fishery barometers have been issued during the year, making the total number of these instruments 113. has been 1,3942. 0 4, but there is an outstanding account with the Post Office which amounts to upwards of 1,0002.III. Land Meteorology of the British IslandThe seven observatories are in active operatioThe publication of the Quarterly Weather Report has been carried on steadily, and the last part of the volume for 1869 appeared at the close of the financial year. The arrears are being steadily worked off.Arrangements have been made for the production of the plates by copperplate printing, and consequently an additional clerk has been engaged for the purpose of working Wagner’s pantagraph.OfficTbe expenses of management in salaries and wages have been 1,195. 7ft, as compared with 1,562. la 3 in the previous year. This reduction is due to the resignation of Dr. Stewart the secretary, and the consequent transference of his work to Mr. Scott the director.The other expenses incident on the office for rent, furniture, postage, &c., have amounted to 787. li Description of the Process by which the Traces op the SelfRegistering Instruments are reduced suitably for PublicatioThe original traces made during five days by the various instruments, at each of the seven observatories, if placed side by side on a screen, would occupy an area of at least 12 feet by 4 feet. The whole of this information is compressed, with perfect clearness, into a single 4to. platThe difficulty which has had to be overcome, lay not only in the bulk, but also in the proportions of the traces varying in different dimensionOn the one hand it was found that the horizontal scale might be considerably compressed, without loss of clearness, when the somewhat blurred line of the original trace was replaced by the delicate clear line of a copper engraving. On the other hand, it was found that the vertical scales did not admit of much reduction with advantage, and again that the vertical scales of each separate barogram and pair oi thermograms required small corrections.