during the Quarter ending September 30, 1 849. 365 



Hail fell on August 8 at Uckfield : the observer mentions 

 that the hailstones were as large as beans. Hail also fell on 

 August 12 at Saffron Walden. 



Solar halos were seen at the following places : — On July 1 

 at Maidenstone Hill, Stone and Nottingham ; on July 2 at 

 Stone; on July 3, 19 and 21 at Maidenstone Hill; on July 

 25 and August 1 at Stone ; on August 9 at Hartwell and 

 Stone ; on September 1 at Maidenstone Hill ; on September 

 22 at Stone ; and on September 26 and 28 at Maidenstone 

 Hill. 



Lunar halos were seen at Cardington on July 5, and at 

 Maidenstone Hill on September 2 and 28. 



I have been favoured with the following agricultural reports. 



At Guernsey, by Dr. Hoskins, F.R.S. 



The weather during July was uniformly fine ; the quantity 

 of ruin rather above the average, distributed in equable showers 

 from the 18th to the end of the month. There was less 

 thunder and lightning than usual. 



The crops without exception luxuriant. The mean tem- 

 perature of August was high, which, added to rain much be- 

 low the usual average, enabled the farmers to secure the har- 

 vest speedily and profitably. The earlier half of September 

 was warm and dry, the latter wet and windy. Potatoes small, 

 but good and abundant ; wall-fruit scanty, but figs in large 

 quantities, and thoroughly ripened. Cider apples scanty. 



About the beginning of August cholera appeared in ill- 

 drained districts as an epidemic ; it spread erratically in 

 almost every part of the town and suburbs, and afterwards 

 appeared in isolated country houses, in which no morbific 

 cause could be traced. It declined towards the end of Sep- 

 tember. 



Small-pox was also very general during this and the previous 

 quarter, as well in the country-places as in town. Vaccination 

 had been much neglected, owing to indifference and prejudice 

 on the part of the lower orders. 



At Uckfield, by C. L. Prince, Esq., Surgeon. 



The weather during the months of July, August and Sep- 

 tember, has been very fine, warm, dry, and remarkably 

 healthy, the mortality having been lower during this quarter 

 than in the corresponding quarter for several years past. The 

 temperature has been upon the whole very equable, and with- 

 out that excessive heat which usually characterizes a warm and 

 dry summer in the southern counties. The crops of hay and 

 of every species of grain has been abundant, very good in 

 quality, and secured in excellent condition. The hop plant 

 has been much diseased, and the crop far below the average. 



