Corry to Merivale (Permanent Under-Secretary)

Having laid before My Lords Commisioners of the
Admiralty your letter of the 15th Inst in which you
request to be informed whether This Department can furnish
forms of tables or General Instructions which will enable the
Governor of British Columbia to establish a series of
Meteorological observations in that Colony; I am commanded
by Their Lordships to acquaint you for the information of
Secretary Sir E. Bulwer Lytton that this Department does
possess the requisite forms &c and that the Chief
of the Meteorological Department has been instructed to send
a supply for one year to the Colonial Office for transmission
to British Columbia.