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of Committee's Report).

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 according-

-ly the honour to suggest that the documents now transmit-

-ted 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 for-

-warding