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A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE CLIMATES OF 

 GREAT MALVERN AND LONDON, 



WITH MISCELLANEOUS METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 



We have taken considerable pains to insure to our readers regu- 

 lar meteorological reports for Malvern; a locality in every way 

 interesting, both to the admirer of rural and picturesque scenery, 

 and to the invalid. But the details of such registers are, we know, 

 of minor value, unless accompanied with the results for the different 

 seasons, and for the year. In our former volumes, these have been 

 given for the seasons of 1834 and part of 35, in two papers entitled 

 A Comparison between the Climates of Great Malvern and London ; 

 and we are now enabled to furnish the following mean results for the 

 remaining seasons of 1835 and 36. The tabular form in which they 

 have been condensed and brought together in one view, will, we 

 trust, render this communication valuable in a scientific point of 

 view ; while the various observations with which it abounds cannot 

 be otherwise than interesting to all classes of our readers. 



The leading facts of Meteorological Science are based upon cer- 

 tain branches of physics, which require great leisure and devotion 

 for their investigation. Thus, Astronomy takes cognizance of the 

 causes of the seasons, and of day and night, and gives data for esti- 

 mating the influence of the heavenly bodies upon the ocean and the 

 air. Geology teaches us that the earth is probably cooling slowly, 

 from a state of intense heat ; makes us acquainted with the nature 

 of the several strata exposed to the influences of light, heat, and 

 air ; and affords some insight into the causes which were in opera- 

 tion at their formation. Chemistry teaches us the nature of the 

 atmosphere, and the modifications impressed upon it** by heat and 

 vapour. Pneumatics and Electricity have each their share in esta- 

 blishing data for meteorological inquiries. From these and other 

 sources the ground-work of the science is established; but the super- 

 structure depends upon the co-operation of its cultivators,who are re- 

 quired to furnish materials requisite for a general comparison of facts. 



With this impression, and in order to establish the mean tempe- 

 rature, atmospheric pressure, and dew point at Malvern, we avail 

 ourselves of the following observations upon the seasons of 1835 

 and 1 836, placing the results of the previous year beside them ; and 

 it will be seen, notwithstanding the various daily vicissitudes of 

 temperature, wind, rain, &c, how little is the variation when the 



