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VI.—The Meteorology of Edinburgh

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

Extract

The first part of this paper was communicated to the Society on June 1, 1896, and published in the Transactions (vol. xxxviii. part iii., No. 20, pp. 681–755), the data there discussed being mean values of the climatic elements for each day in the year.

In the present paper an attempt will be made to focus the results deduced from an examination and reduction of the various meteorological registers kept in Edinburgh from 1731 to 1736 and from 1764 to the present time, with special reference to secular and other weather changes.

The condensed results of a number of minor papers dealing with subjects which have, in many cases, formed part of the daily routine of observation during the last ten years have also been included. Attention may also be called to the list of remarkable atmospheric occurrences, such as phenomenal gales, snow-storms, auroras, etc., which is contained in the appendix. In presenting this paper my warm thanks must be expressed to Dr Buchan, from whom I received invaluable advice when points of difficulty arose in the reduction of the observations.

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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1900

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page 64 note * Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., vols. iv. p. 213, and v. p. 193.

page 64 note † Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xxxviii. pp. 682–683.

page 65 note * Jour. Met. Soc., vol. vi. pp. 14–18.

page 65 note † Abstracts from Meteorological Observations taken at the stations of the Royal Engineers.

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page 68 note † Trans., vol. xxxviii. p. 687.

page 69 note * In part 1 of the paper it was erroneously stated that the observations were made at this station from 1853 to 1856.

page 69 note † (See Quarterly Report of the Meteorological Society of Scotland, for the quarter ending 31st March 1862, p. 7.)

page 72 note * Jour. Scot. Met. Soc., vol. x. p. 150.

page 73 note * The mean annual rainfall for the twenty-five years, 1866–90, at various places in Edinburgh was as follows:— Charlotte Square, 26·71 inches; Cumin Place, 30·13 inches; Blacket Place, 29·86 inches; and Napier Road, 28·97 inches.

page 76 note * Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xxxviii. p. 691.

page 78 note * Ency. Brit., Art. ‘Meteorology,’ Buchan.

page 84 note * Simmond's Meteorological Tables, p. 23.

page 85 note * Medical Essays, vol. i. p. 8.

page 87 note * Trans., vol. xxxviii. p. 750.

page 89 note * Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xxxviii. p. 751.

page 90 note * Jour. Scot. Met. Soc., vol. ix. p. 227.