The meeting, as he wrote, was "amusing and interesting, and very comfortable for frosty weather, as Mr.Murchison got warm and Mr.Greenau _( sic)_ witty.

The warmth, however, got the better of the wit." The Meteorological Society also claimed his attention, and in this month he contributed a paper which "Richard [Fall] says will frighten them out of their meteorological wits, containing six close-written folio pages, and having, at its conclusion, a sting in its tail, the very agreeable announcement that it only commences the subject.".