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nor of many of them so much as dried Specimens, and of the rest 

 having had but a transient view. I shall therefore put down what I 

 find in late writeres, viz. Plukenet's Phytography ; the remaining six 

 volumes of Hortus Malabaricus ; Father Plumier ; Schola Botanica ; 

 Paradisi Batavi prodrom. ; Florae Batavse Flores ; Toumefort's Elem. 

 Botan. ; Breynius his two Prodromi ; and, above all, your Catalogue 

 and History of the Plants of Jamaica and the neighbour Islands, 

 which you are pleased so frankly to offer me the use of, without in- 

 terposing my own judgement. Did I live about London, and had I 

 opportunity frequently to visit the Physick Gardens thereabouts, and 

 to observe and describe the new species, I might make a better Sup- 

 plement to my History than now I shall doe, my circumstances not 

 admitting so long an absence from this place. I have been lately very 

 ill and indisposed with a hoarsenesse and violent cough, attended 

 with a feverish heat, of which I am not yet fully recovered. I hope 

 you are well, and pray for your health. My wife sends her very 

 humble service. I must owne myself to be much obliged to you, 

 and am. Sir, 



Your very affectionate friend and humble servant. 

 Black Notley, June 23, —96. JoHxV Ray. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR MAY 1843. 

 Chiswick. — May 1. Cloudless: cold and dry. 2. Fine. 3. Very fine. 4. 

 Cloudy and fine : rain. 5. Rain : cloudy: constant and very heavy rain at night. 

 6. Heavy rain : clear and cold at night. 7. Clear and fine : showery : frosty at 

 night. 8. Hazy : heavy rain. 9. Drizzly: cloudy. 10. Slight haze : clear and 

 cold at night. 11. Light haze : clear. 12, 13. Very fine. 14. Cloudy and fine : 

 heavy rain at night, 15, 16. Rain. 17. Heavy showers. 18. Densely overcast : 

 cold rain. 19. Rain: cloudy. 20. Cloudy: showery: heavy rain at night. 

 21. Fine : heavy rain: clear and cold at night, 22. Heavy showers. 23. Cloudy : 

 lightning with rain at night. 24. Heavy rain : clear. 25. Cloudy and fine. 



26. Rain. 27, 28. Showery. 29. Hazy. 30. Light haze : very fine : showery. 

 31. Cloudy and rnild. — Mean temperature of the month 3° below the average. 

 The quantity of rain was greater than that which has fallen in any month within 

 at least the last seventeen years. 



Boston. — May 1, 2. Fine. 3. Cloudy. 4. Fine. 5. Cloudy: rain early a.m. 

 6. Rain : rain a.m. and p.m. 7. Cloudy. 8. Cloudy : rain p.m. 9 — ] 1. Cloudy. 

 12. Fine. 13. Cloudy : rain p.m. 14. Fine. 1 5. Rain : rain p.m. 16. Cloudy : 

 rain early A.M. 17. Cloudy. 18, 19. Cloudy: rain early a.m. 2Q. Cloudy. 

 21. Cloudy: rain early a.m.: rain p.m. 22. Fine. 23. Cloudy: rain a.m. 

 24. Windy : rain a.m. 25. Fine : rain a.m. 26. Fine. 27. Fine : rain, with 

 thunder and lightning p.m. 28, 29. Fine. 30. Fine : halo round the sun 1 1 a.m. 

 31. Cloudy : rain early a.m. This has been the wettest May we have had since 

 1830. 



Sandwick Manse, Orknei/. — May 1. Fine: fog. 2. Cloudy : fog. 3. Clear: 

 cloudy. 4. Rain : cloudy. 5. Cloudy : clear. 6. Clear : cloudy. 7. Rain : 

 cloudy. 8. Clear. 9. Clear : cloudy. 10,11. Clear : fine. 12—14. Cloudy. 

 15 — 17. Clear. 18. Cloudy : fine. 19. Cloudy: showers. 20. Bright : clear. 

 21. Bright: cloudy. 22 — 24. Bright: clear. 25. Rain. 26. Cloudy. 27. 

 Damp. 28. Cloudy : sleet-showers. 29. Snow-showers : sleet-showers. 30. 

 Bright: fine. 31. Clear: fine. 



Applegarth Manse ^ Dumfriesshire. — May 1 — 3. Fair and fine. 4. Fair till p.m. : 

 rain. 5. Heavy showers. 6. Fair and fine. 7. A shower. 8, 9. Fair. 10, 

 11. Fair : hoar-frost. 12. Fine : rain p.m. 13. Fine and mild. 14. Fine, but 

 cloudy. 15. Showers. 16. Cloudy and cold. 17. Cool : cloudy. 18. A 

 shower. 19. Cold. 20. Cold : fair. 21. Cold: wet. 22. Milder, but showery. 

 23. Mild : cloudy. 24. Cold and rainy. 25. Soft rain. 26. Mild : showers*. 



27. Mild : showery. 28. Cold and rainy. 29. Clear: heavy rain. 30. Soft; 

 growing : thunder. 31. Wet all day. 



