Meteorological Observations for January 1 838. 303 



Just published, No. I. New Series, 

 Annals of Natural History, or Magazine of Zoology, Botany, 

 and Geology. (Being a Continuation of the * Magazine of Zoology 

 and Botany/ and of Sir W. J. Hooker's ' Companion to the Bo- 

 tanical Magazine.') Conducted by Sir W. Jardine, Bart., P. J. 

 Selby, Esq,, Dr. Johnston, Sir W. J. Hooker, Regius Professor of 

 Botany, Glasgow, and Richard Taylor, F.L.S. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR JANUARY 1838. 



Chisunck. — Jan. I. Fine: slight rain: very fine. 2. Cloudy and fine. 



3, 4. Very fine. 5, 6. Dense fog. 7. Bleak and-fiold. 8, 9. Frosty : 



slight snow. 10 — i;i. Frosty. 14. Snowing. 15 — 18. Continued 



severe frost. 19,20. Most intense frost. 21. Overcast: thawing. 



22. Fine. 23. Hazy and cold. 24 — 27. Frosty : bleak and cold. 

 28 — 30. Fine. 31. Hazy and cold. 



On the night of the 19th and morning of the 20th, the frost was more 

 intense than has been the case fOr at least the period since the commence- 

 ment of the present century. The registering thermometer in the Arbo- 

 retum of the Horticultural Society's garden was 4 degrees below zero of 

 Fahrenheit's scale; and some thermometers in the neighbourhood, in more 

 exposed situations, indicated 6 degrees below zero. The destruction of 

 subjects of the vegetable kingdom has in consequence been unprecedented 

 in this country, within the memory of any now alive. — R.T. 



Boston. — Jan. 1. Fine: beautiful morning. 2. Cloudy. 3. Cloudy: 

 rain early a.m. 4, 5. Fine. 6. Foggy. 7. Cloudy. 8, 9. Snow 

 10, 11. Cloudy: snow a.m. and r.M. 12. Cloudy. 13, Snow. 14. Fine 

 15, 16. Cloudy. 17. Fine: snow early a.m. 18. Fine: large fall of snow 

 early a.m. 19. Cloudy. 20. Cloudy: Ther. 12, 5 p.m. 21, 22. Cloudy. 



23, 24. Stormy. 25—28. Cloudy. 29. Rain : snow early a.m. rain p.m. 

 30. Foggy: rain p.m. 31. Cloudy. 



Penzance. — Jan. 1. Fair and clear. 2. Very stormy, rain, fair at night. 

 3. Cloudy, showers. 4. Fair and clear. 5. Fair with clouds. 6, 7. Cloudy, 

 a shower. 8. Cloudy. 9. Clear and fair. 10. Snow. ll.Sleet, fair at 

 night. 1 2. Misty, fair and clear at night. 1 3. Stormy, sleet. 14. Cloudy, 

 clear at night. 1 5. Rain, evening fair. 1 6. Sleet, fair at night. 1 7. Fair 

 and clear, snow shower. 18. Fair and clear. 19. Cloudy, snow. 



20. Cloudy and stormy. 21. Misty. 22. Fair and clear, evening a shower. 

 23. Fair with clouds, evening fair and clear. 24. Very stormy. 25. Cloudy, 

 showers, stormy. 26. Cloudy, heavy showers at night. 27. Showers. 

 28. Fair with clouds, showers in the evening. 29. Fair and clear. 



30. Cloudy. 31. Fair with clouds. 



The early part of the month was mild though stormy; the thermometer 

 reaching as high as 49°. Cold commenced on the 8th, and continued to 

 increase in severity till the morning of the 19th, when the thermometer 

 stood at 23", the wind blowing from E.S.E. On the 20th the tempera- 

 ture had risen to 45", the wind still continuing to come from the eastern 

 quarter; the mercury in the instrument kept advancing till the29th,when 

 it arrived at its maximum, 50° ; the wind suddenly veering to the W., but 

 proceeding from that direction for only twenty-four hours, when it again 

 moved round to the E., which produced a consequent depression of tem- 

 perature. Though the barometer gradually fell in the space of ten days 

 (from the 18th to the 28th) more than an inch, yet the rain in the gauge 

 did not amount to an inch. The anemometer during this period marked 

 E. to E.S.E. This month must be considered a remarkably fine one, 

 though cold for this part of England. 



