Meteorological Observations. ^99l? 



tips, and gradually increasing in length as they extend backwards to 

 the eyes, and arched a little forwards ; eyes small and very black ; 

 ears nearly naked and slaty brown ; belly slaty grey ; legs slaty brown, 

 thinly covered with short greyish hairs, which project in a little tuft 

 over each claw, beneath naked ; the toes with eight or nine trans- 

 verse wrinkles ; tail about two-thirds as long as the body, covered 

 with short bristly hairs, and appearing beyond the middle somewhat 

 grey from white annular wrinkles ; furnished for about two-thirds of 

 its length with long black bristly hairs. 



Length of body, 2^ inches; tail, If. — Proc, Zool. Sac. Jidy 26, 

 1853. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR JAN. 1855. 



Chiswick. — Jan. 1. Cloudy : boisterous. 2. Densely clouded : slight rain : over- 

 cast and mild. 3. Very fine. 4. Overcast. 5. Very fine. 6. Overcast. 7. Densely 

 clouded. 8. Overcast. 9. Fine : slight rain. 10. Foggy : very dense fog at 

 night. 11. Foggy. 12. Foggy : hazy clouds. 13. Overcast : fine : cloudy : clear 

 and frosty. After unusually fine dry weather, a most severe period now com- 

 mences. 14. Fine : cloudy : clear with sharp frost. 15. Hazy : frosty. 16, 

 Slight rain: frosty. 17. Shght snow: clear and frosty. 18, Frosty: clear: 

 snow. 19. Sharp frost : uniformly overcast : clear and frosty. 20. Cloudy : 

 snowing. 21. Sharp frost: frosty haze. 22. Snowing: hazy. 23. Snowing: 

 overcast. 24. Overcast : frosty. 25. Fine : frosty. 26. Hazy. 27. Foggy : fine : 

 frosty. 28. Overcast. 29. Snow showers. 30. Snowing. 31. Overcast : 

 windy : drifting snow. 



Mean temperature of the month 33°*45 



Mean temperature of Jan. 1854 37 "88 



Mean temperature of Jan. for the last twenty-nine years ... 37 *06 

 Average amount of rain in Jan l"74inch. 



Boston. — Jan. 1. Cloudy: stormy. 2. Cloudy. 3. Fine. 4 — 9. Cloudv. 10. 

 Fine. 11, 12. Cloudy. 13. Cloudy : rain p.m. 14— 16. Cloudy. 17. Cloudy: 

 snow A.M. 18 — 20. Cloudy. 21,22. Cloudy : snow a.m. and p.m. 23. Cloudy: 

 snow A.M. 24—26. Cloudy. 27. Fine. 28. Cloudy. 29. Fine : snow p.m. 30, 

 31. Cloudy. 



SandwicJc Manse, Orkney. — Jan. 1. Sleet-showers a.m. : snow-showers, frost 

 p.m. 2. Cloudy a.m. : fog p.m. 3. Drizzle a.m. : drizzle, showers p.m. 4. Bright 

 A.M. : rain p.m. 5. Showers a.m. : showers, thunder and hghtning p.m. 6. 

 Showers, bright a.m. : showers, thunder and lightning p.m. 7. Drops a.m. : 

 drizzle p.m. 8. Rain a.m. and p.m. 9. Clear a.m. and p.m. 10. Clear, frost a.m. : 

 rain p.m. 11. Drizzle a.m. : cloudy p.m. 12. Cloudy a.m. and p.m. 13. Cloudy, 

 fine A.M.: fog P.M. 14, 15. Cloudy a.m. and p.m. 16. Showers, bright a.m. : 

 cloudy P.M. 17. Clear, frost a.m.: fine, rain p.m. 18. Frost, showers a.m.: 

 damp P.M. 19. Drizzle a.m. : drizzle, showers p.m. 20. Damp, fine a.m. : fine, 

 clear p.m. 21. Cloudy a.m.: fine, cloudy p.m. 22. Showers a.m.: sleet p.m. 

 23. Bright, frost a.m. : clear, frost p.m. 24. Bright, frost a.m. : fine, frost p.m. 

 25. Cloudy a.m.: rain p.m. 26. Cloudy a.m. : snow-showers p.m. 27. Bright, 

 frost A.M. : snow-showers p.m. 28. Snow-showers a.m. and p.m. 29 — 31. Snow, 

 clear a.m. : frost, clear p.m. 



Mean temperature of Jan. for twenty-eight previous years ... 38°'38 



Mean temperature of this month 38 'IB 



Mean temperature of Jan. 1854 36*46 



Average quantity of rain in Jan. for fourteen previous years . 4-38 inches. 



