5. The fact that no member of the Hongkong Committee could claim to be a Meteorological Expert prevents the opinion they have expressed from having great authority but from the evidence they have collected and from that furnished by the Directors of the two neighbouring Observatories an authoritative opinion could doubtless be formed by the Meteorological Department of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and I have accordingly the honour to suggest that the documents now transmitted should be sent to that Department for the favour of their observations.
6. As Your Lordship is aware from the first of my Despatches referred to above it had been my intention to extend the enquiry of the Committee, whose report I am now sending, so as to cover the general working of the Observatory, but mainly in view of the fact that there will shortly be a change in the Directorship of that institution, I have thought it advisable to postpone such extended enquiry. The question of improving the typhoon signals is however now being considered.
7. I regret the long delay in forwarding