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Mean Besults of the Thermometer, and the Quantity of Bain, 



for 1840, at Alford, about Lat. 57° 13' N., 420 feet above 



the level of the Sea, and 26 miles inland from the Sea at 



Aberdeen. J3y the Rev. James Farquharson, LL. D., 



F. R. S. Communicated by the Author. 



The thermometer was registered at 9^^ a.m., and 8^ p.m., 

 and the extreme highest and lowest of each day and night, 

 indicated by self-registering thermometers, were registered at 

 the latter hour. Also the number of fair days, and of days on 

 which rain or snow fell, more or less. 



I 



By morning and evening 

 observation. 



52.038 



Mean temp, from April to Sept., | 

 both inclusive, .... J 



Mean temp, of July, Aug., and 1 _ . , „ 

 Sept., both inclusive, . . j * 



Deg. 



Mean Temperature of 1833, 44.573 



... 1834, 47.99 



... 1835, 45.93 



... 183G, 44.713 



... 1837, 44.73 



... 1838, 43.0933 



... 1839, 44.521 



... 1840, 45.156 



By daily highest 

 and lowest. 



51 .361 



53.933 



Mean Ump. of eight ^cars^ 45^0882 37.004 Mean ruin of his. jeari 



Rain in 

 inches. 



37.7 



45.55 



3205 



41.25 



30,3 



34.575 



