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



Tlie average daily ranges of the readings of the thermometer 

 in air at the height of four feet above the soil, for October, 

 November and December, were 15°*1, 11°*7, and 9°'l re- 

 spectively. The averages for these three months from the 

 preceding eight years are 13°*0, 10°' 3 and 9°*0. 



The readings of the thermometer on grass in October was at 

 and below 32° on five nights ; the lowest was 25°*5 ; between 

 32° and 40° on eleven nights, and exceeded 40° on fifteen 

 nights. In November it was at and below 32° on nineteen 

 nights; the lowest reading was 15°, and above 32° on eleven 

 nights. In December the lowest reading was 10°*8; the 

 readings were below 32° on twenty-three nights, and above 

 32° on seven only. 



At Cardington the mean of all the lowest readings of a ther- 

 mometer on grass in October was 34°'6, in November was 

 25°'9, and in December was 26". The lowest readings in 

 these three months were 19°*5, 8°'0 and 8°*0 respectively. At 

 Nottingham the lowest reading on short grass was 16°. 



Fog at Dundee on October 1 ; at Greenwich on October 2; 

 at Sunderland on October 10 ; at Darlington and Sunderland 

 on October 16; at Hartlepool and Sunderland on the 17th; 

 at Exeter, Tunbridge and Moffatt, on the 22nd ; at Berwick 

 on the 24th; at Dundee on the 25th and 27th; at Dundee, 

 Poole, Reading and Sunderland, on the 29th ; at Basingstoke, 

 Plymouth, Greenwich, Oxford and Stone, on the 31st. In 

 November on the 1st at Sunderland; on the 2nd at Green- 

 wich, Birmingham and Edinburgh; on the 3rd all over the 

 country at the same time ; on the 4th at Stone ; on the 7th 

 at Sunderland ; on the Bth at Dundee ; on the 1 1th at London 

 and Stone; on the 12th general over that part of the country 

 south of Stone; on the 13th at Folkestone and Birmingham ; 

 on the 17th at Bristol, Southampton, Crewe, Lancaster, 

 Whitehaven and Edinburgh; on the 19th it was general all 

 over the country ; on the 20th it was general in the north and 

 at London; on the 21st at Sunderland, Whitehaven, York 

 and Southampton; on the 22nd at Portsmouth and Sunder- 

 land ; on the 23rd at Folkestone, Conway, Sunderland and 

 Hartlepool ; on the 24th all over the country, extending to 

 Glasgow ; on the 25th at Greenwich, Stone and London ; on 

 the 26th general from Plymouth to Glasgow ; on the 27th at 

 Greenwich, Oxford, Gloucester, Southampton, Cambridge, 

 Birmingham, Liverpool and Whitehaven ; on the 29th at 

 Edinburgh and Dundee ; and on the 30th at London, Bir- 

 mingham, MofFatt, Hartlepool and Berwick. In December 

 on the 1st at many places in the north, extending to Dundee; 

 in the south at Plymouth, Bridgewater, and at Birmingham; 



