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PART 11. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. Monthly Calendar of Nature for Scotland, 



Extracts from the Meteorological Register, kept at Annat Gardens, 

 Perthshire, North lat. 56° 23^', above the Level of the Sea 172 ft., and 

 Fifteen Miles from the Coast j being the Mean of Daily Observations 

 taken at Ten o' Clock Morning and Ten o'clock Evening. 



Results for April. 



The average temperature for April at this place is 45*5°. The 

 mean for that month this season is nearly 2° above the ordinary average, 

 and within two tenths of a degree of the temperature in the corresponding 

 month in the years 1824, 1825, and 1826. The depth of rain is two 

 tenths of an inch above the ordinary fall, but 1*83 in. less than fell in 

 April last year. 



Results for May. 



The average temperature for May at this place is 51-5°; and, notwith- 

 standing the frost in the early part of the month, the mean temperature 

 for May this season exceeds the ordinary mean by four tenths of a degree, 

 and is 1-5° higher than last season. The fall of rain is two tenths of an 

 inch below the ordinary fall ; but the dry state of the air, and its conse- 

 quent capacity for exhaling moistiu-e, has produced more than the ordinary 

 rate of evaporation. It may be proper to remark, that the depth of eva- 

 poration expressed in the seventh column is the depth of water evaporated 

 from a basin of water sunk in the ground in an exposed situation, receiv- 

 ing the full play of the winds over its surface, exposed to the rays of the 



