Scottish geographical magazine (1885) (14784264815)

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Title: Scottish geographical magazine

Year: 1885 (1880s)

Authors: Scottish Geographical Society Royal Scottish Geographical Society

Subjects: Geography

Publisher: Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Geographical Society

Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto

Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Laurie Island, South Orkneys. The other observations are at presentbeing reduced, but fully a year will elapse before the examination is 1 See this Magazine, vol. XX. pp. 113-120.VOL. XXI. 2 H 418 SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE. completed. It will be remembered that the meteorological and mag-netical station at Scotia Bay was handed over to the Argentine Meteoro-logical Office on February 22, 1904, and the writer remained in chargeuntil relieved by the Uruguay on January 1 of the present year. I amindebted to Mr. Walter G. Davis, director of the Argentine MeteorologicalOffice, for permission to utilise the data taken subsequent to the departureof the Scotia on February 22, 1904. Attention may also be called tothe circumstance that small differences may be found between themeteorological values given in this notice and those in process of publica-tion by the Argentine Meteorological Office, after being checked by thecomputing staffs at Buenos Aires and Cordoba. It is not expected that

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Pig. 6.—Lighthouse at Cape Pembroke, Falkland Islands. Sub-Antaictic MeteorologicalStation in connection with Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. any large or important errors will be disclosed by this second examina-tion of the South Orkney observations, but it is necessary to drawattention to the possibility of small mistakes having been made inthe preliminary computations, the results of which are here underconsideration. Position of Station.—The observing station, including Omond Houseand Copeland Observatory, is situated in lat. 60° 44 S., long. 44° 50 W.The hourly eye observations were transferred from the ship to theshore on November 1, 1903. The land station was not quite so wellsituated for wind observations as at the spot where the Scotia wintered.This applies more particularly to westerly winds, which were deflectedinto southerly by some high cliffs close to the station. Winds from otherdirections were not so affected, and in every case the quarter from which SOME

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