, 1872-07-17

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casion, We trust that the Savings Bank
will continue for many years to serve the
useful purpose for which it was designed.
The Dock, once more, claims our attcn-
ton. Mr.. Bell, the civil engeneer, who is
TO effect the repairs arrived on Monday in
the W. |. & P. Steam Ship, and brought
with him a gang of workmen, also som 900
packages of implements and materials for
the repairs. Operations have already been
commenced and we trust that at last the
Dock is in good hands and will be put in
thorough good order.
BARBADOS Governor RawSon's recon-
mendation to establish a system of meteo-
rio observations in Barbados has elected
communications on the subject from Briga-
der General Meyer, the Chief signal Off
Ger of the Army of the United States,
charged with the Meteorological Depart
ment OF that Government, from Professor
Thompson B. Maury, Assistant in the same
Office, also from MIR. Robert II. Scott, Di-
rector of the Meteorological office of the
British Government. In Brigadier Gen
eral Meyers letter he says 1t has sug-
Scolcu lCStIl llIdl Il system VI uUScINdllOtS
and reports made in Barbados SyncIrouous
with those made by the Signal Service of
the United States and connected with
them, would be Of the greatest utility to
US and the Islands, and that by the eX-
change of reports which he would gladly
furnish, a knowledge of the meteoric con-
ditions Of our coast could be daily had in
Barbados"
Professor Maury's letter contains the
following -
My labor as meteorologist in this of
flee, charged with the duty of making daily
weather forecast and Storm warnings, con
vinces me that in the great trade wind belt
alone can we ever expect to gain early in
formation of the devastating Storms and
Cyclones which emerge from the Tropics,
sweep over the United States, and suisse
q%uentIy, move in the belt of the passage
winds, (the S. w. Anti trades of the North
Atlantic) and break upon the British Isl
ands. The azores have been urgently recon-
mended by many European meteoroIogists
as most important Stations for their sci
ence, but in my opinion, the gales which
sweep over the Azores come around them
towards the S. E. and do not reach England;
in this opinion too | am sustained by the
inquiries Of Captain Henry Toynbee, the
able Marine Superintendent of the Board of
Trade. The island of Barbados, howeveris
so happily placedin the midst of he Tropical
Atlantic, that she may keep perpetual Vi
gil over the fiery meteory which are gener-
ated just East of her. The great problem
of Storm science now is the origin of Cy-
clones. My own views have been formed
on this subject after considerable study and
reflection, and am satisfied that they are
correct in fixing the birth of the hurricane
in the belt of interference of the N. Z. and
S. +. Trade wind.
The settlement of this question cannot
be looked for, however, until we have me-
teorological observations in the Atlantic
between the parallels of 1G degrees and Is
degrees N. latitude, where this belt of con-
ffict between the Trades is to be found
during the hurricane season. I hear
casually of the probability of the authori-
ties ofBarbados establishing a system ofme-
neurological reports. Were this undertaken,
even on a small scale, it would be of ~incalcu-
liable service to the shipping of the whole
world, and would no doubt speedily lead to