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State of the Weather and Temperature, 



[It is hoped that the date of this communication will not 

 detract from the interest of it; and, although Mr. White's 

 kindred views, of subsequent date, in p. 251., may be held to 

 do so, the present one may serve to further the same end, 

 and it differs in proposition it includes being limited to 

 Britain. It is given now, contemporaneously, with the fol- 

 lowing one by Mr. Marshall, partly from a sense of justice 

 to Mr. White, as a means of recording his sympathetic and 

 earlier vote for the extension of meteorological knowledge. 

 Has not the British Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence suggested cooperation in the prosecution of meteorology, 

 in their prospectus, or First Annual Report ? A printed copy 

 of a " Meteorological Diary, kept by S. Moss, chemist, Chel- 

 tenham," which includes the "general summary" for " 1835," 

 that is now present, has excited the idea that, if a society of 

 persons addicted to meteorology could be instituted, and local 

 reports were supplied to it, and summarised by it, there would 

 be efficient means of furthering the object of Mr. White and 

 Mr. Marshall; and that suggested, in p. 314., by Mr. Bree, 

 in a letter received from him in 1832.] 



Art. VII. Summary of the State of the Weather and Temperature 

 at Kendal, Westmoreland, in 1 835, with Remarks ; a Speculation 

 on the ^Atmospheric Conditions which may excite Wind ; and a 

 Notice of an observed Manifestation of Aurora Borealis, and of 

 the Occurrence of an Earthquake. By Samuel Marshall, Esq. 



The year 1835 has enabled me to complete a series of 

 observations on the meteorology of Kendal for the last four- 

 teen years. There are, I believe, few places in England 

 where the. meteorology of any district has been registered for 

 so long a period as that of this town, registered in it in con- 

 sequence of the successive labours of several individuals hav- 

 ing contributed to this important object. So long ago as the 



