122 Mr. J. Glaisher's Remarks on the Weather 



On November 6 a stream of air was passing from the Irish 

 Sea, described as a strong breeze at Holyhead, Liverpool and 

 Manchester; as a storm at Lancaster, a heavy gale at White- 

 haven, and a gale at Durham : the breadth of this stream 

 was about 2°. It was not felt on the eastern side of the Cum- 

 berland mountains. 



On November 15, in latitude 53|^° on the west coast, a hard 

 wind blew from the Irish Sea, described as a hard wind at 

 Holyhead, a gale at Crewe, and merely as a strong breeze at 

 Birmingham, and as a gentle breeze only before it reached 

 Northampton or Oxford, towards which places the air was 

 travelling. At the same time it was described as a calm at 

 Liverpool. 



On December 3 a hard wind was blowing over that part of 

 the country extending from Dundee to Manchester, and which 

 was described as a storm at Hartlepool, as a heavy gale at 

 Sunderland and at Yarmouth, and as a gale at Crewe. At 

 all places situated south of Birmingham the air was described 

 to have been either in very gentle motion, or calm, with rain 

 falling at some places, and fog prevalent at others. Tracing 

 the course of this storm, it seems to have reached England at 

 Yarmouth, and from thence passed in a south-east direction 

 up the country, it being most severe on the eastern coast, and 

 so on to Dundee; this storm was probably felt in Belgium; 

 and observations at Brussels, and at other places in its appa- 

 rent course, would be valuable. 



On December 8 a strong wind was blowing from the Irish 

 Sea, affecting Holyhead, Liverpool, and described as a storm 

 at Lancaster; in the line continued which joins Holyhead 

 and Lancaster, viz. at Darlington and at Hartlepool, the wind 

 was blowing strongly ; its direction however at these places was 

 from the east, or towards the Irish Sea. The whole mass of 

 air north of this storm was moving from east to west, and at 

 places south of the storm it was moving from west to east. On 

 this day Irish observations are necessary to follow this storm. 



In this way data may be collected for very important addi- 

 tions to our knowledge of meteorological phjenomena. 



I have been favoured with the following reports upon agri- 

 culture. 



From Stony hurst, by the Rev. A. Weld. 



The potatoe disease made no further progress after about 

 the middle of October ; even those that were tainted in the 

 getting- up have remained nearly in the same state, except 

 that the disease seems to have taken rather the form of a dry 

 rot, without however extending any further. 



The crop of Swedes was very abundant, averaging upwards 



