ON THB TEMPERATURE OF THE YEAR 1847. 



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terest or value to the Club, I beg to place them at your dis- 



And am, dear Sir, 



Yours truly, 



John S. Donaldson Selby. 



The following Meteorological Table is compiled from the 

 daily register kept at Cheswick, by Alexander Aitkin, gar- 

 dener to John S. Donaldson Selby, Esq., being for the year 

 ending December 31, 1847. 



Cheswick is situated in latitude 55 degrees 41 minutes N., 

 longitude 1 degree 53 minutes W. It stands 95 feet above 

 the level of the sea, from wdiich it is distant one mile, on the 

 coast of Northumberland, 5 miles south from Berwick upon- 

 Tweed. 



The mean temperature for the year 1847 was 44° of Faht.'s thermometer, 

 and the number of inches of rain fallen during the year, 24 20. 

 Mean temperature for 1846 wa« 48" of Faht. ; inches of rain for do. was 36'56 ; 

 rainy and snowy days iu 1846, 171, aud in 1847, 82 days; fiur days in 1846, 

 194, and in 1847, 283 days, 



