22 MAY 1886, Page 13

THE CLIMATE OF BALMORAL.

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " EFECTAT011.” J

your number of May 15th, referring to the wet weather experienced by the Queen at the opening of the Liverpool Exhi- bition, you remark that the Queen "loves Balmoral, where, when it does not snow, it rains." Will you allow me to say that Mr. Buchan, the Secretary of the Scottish Meteorological Society, in his elaborate paper on "The Climate of the British Islands," says that Balmoral, and Deeside generally, has "one of the driest climates in Great Britain P"—I am, Sir, &c.,