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AN influential committee has been formed with the object of establishing a memorial tower and meteorological station in honour of Dr. J. P. Joule, F.R.S., at Sale, Cheshire, where he lived from 1872 down to the time of his death in 1889. Sir W. H. Bailey has offered to the Sale District Council an automatic recording meteorological and public clock made from designs which are the result of his investigations and inquiries with regard to similar instruments in this country and abroad. The instrument will be unique in its details; will indicate the time as a public clock on large dials, produce automatic graphic records of the various changes of temperature and the fluctuations of atmospheric pressure, and also changes of the wind and the rainfall of the district. In addition to this gift, which will cost about 250l., Mr. F. Armstrong has offered to the Council a set of instruments to equip a meteorological station, and the only condition attached to these gifts is that they shall be suitably housed. Designs for a building to be callfed “The Joule Memorial Tower,” to contain the recording and other instruments, have been prepared, and the Council is witling to permit the erection of such a building in the public park and recreation ground. In a room at the base of the building the meteorological instruments will be placed, and on one side of the exterior a tablet will be fixed on which there will be set a medallion portrait of Dr. Joule and a short record of his titles to fame. The cost of this tower will probably be 1000l., which sum the District Council would have been willing to provide had its funds been applicable for such a purpose. As this course was not practicable, a committee has been formed at the instance of the District Council for the purpose of obtaining subscriptions to raise the amount required. Subscriptions should be sent to the hon. treasurer (Mr. A. H. Megson, The Priory, Sale), or the hon. secretary (Mr. J. W. Robson, Selbourne Lodge, Sale).