Present, fifty-five members and six visitors. Seven persons were reported to have been elected to membership since the previous meeting, M. Eax~cs'; PoxTza~, Civil Engineer, of Paris, France, was, or~ th~ recommendation of the Board of Managers, elected a Correspondin I Member. The Secretary presented the following Report of the Special Comrnitte on State Weather Service, viz.:
The Special Committee appointed by the President of the INSTITUT! under authority of a resolution of the Ixs'rI'ru'r~,:, adopted at the Stat~ Meeting in October, I886, to formulate a plan for the State Weather ~Servi~ respectfully report :
That in execution of the duties imposed upon it, the Committee promot the passage of an Act of the Legislature appropriating $3,0oo for the purp~ contemptated.
The Committee has also secured the co-operation and assistance of principal railroads in the State which, recognizing the public nature of service and the great benefits ~it is capable of rendering rite peopIe the State have granted free passes to Sergeant Townsend of the United St'. Weather Bureau, while on duty for State Weather Service.
He has already visited a number of points of influence, particularly s, institutions of learning, and has had most gratifying success, receiving comes, sympathy and assurances of co-operation.
He has also made arrangements for displaying signals with nurne parties on the lines of the telegraph.
This account of the work already performed will best indicate the which the Special Committee recommends, and having thus accornpl the object of its appointment, the Committee respectfully asks that the fl prosecution of the work be committed to the Standing Committee on M ology, and that the Specia[ Committee be discharged.