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to me as the dog tick. The insect crawls with sufficient 

 quickness, using all the legs but not in any regular alterna- 

 tion ; and it holds on its way with a sort of dogged air. If 

 overturned it readily recovers its right position. 



I cannot identify this with any described species. It is, 

 however, nearly allied to the Ixodes hexagonus of Leach. 



Mbteorological Tables, 



Compiled from a Daily Register kept at Cheswick during the 

 Year 1848. Latitude 55° 41' north, longitude 2° 3' west ; 

 altitude 95 feet above the level of the sea, from which it 

 is distant one mile. By John S. Donaldson Selby, Esq. 



OBSERVATIONS. 

 The barometer was highest on the 25th January, viz., • • 80*55 inches. 



Ditto lowest on the 10th February, viz., - 28*25 " 



The mean of these two observations givee - - - 29*40 " 



And the mean of the entire year, 29*76 " 



The Thermometer was highest on the 12th 



July, viz., 74*, no wind, and cloudy sky. 



And lowest on the 29th January, viz., - 8°, wind N.W., and clear •igr. 



The hottest days were 12th and 13th July, on which days the average of the 



thermometer for 48 boon, and at six observations day and night, reached 



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