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Second Quarter (April, May, June). — The first five days of April 

 were warm, with a mean daily excess of temperature of 3J° ; theu 

 followed a cold week — the wind being mostly north-east — with an 

 equal deficiency. From the 14th to the 21st of April the weather 

 was again warm, the average daily excess of temperature being 6^-9. 

 On the 22nd April a long cold period set in, and continued till the 

 18th June, the deficiency of temperature averaging 2f° daily. The 

 remainder of the quarter was warmer, but not uninterruptedly so, 

 the temperature on four of the twelve days being below the average 

 for the season. The mean temperature for the quarter was 51 "8 

 or 0*5 below the average in 102 years. The deficiency for April 

 was O'l, and for May 2-0 ; for June there was an excess of 0-7. The 

 rainfall at Greenwich amounted to 4' 7 inches, or one inch less than 

 the average in 58 years. In April and May there was a deficiency, 

 and an excess in June. 



Wheat was in ear on the 12th of June at Strathfield Turgiss and 

 Cardington ; on the 17th at Brighton ; on the 21st at Hawarden and 

 Cockermouth ; on the 24th at Silloth. In flower on the 20th of June 

 at Weybridge; on the 26th at Oxford and Cardington. 



Barley was in ear on the 15th of Jime at Cardington ; on the 

 26th at Cockermouth. In flower on the 29th of June at Card- 

 ington. 



Oats were in ear on the 25th of June at Cockermouth. 



Flax was above ground on the 8th of May at Miltown, and in flower 

 on the 25th of June. 



It is generally remarked all over the country, in respect to the 

 very small number of insects this season, and J. Jenner Weir, Esq., 

 President of the Blackheath Natural History Society, in a letter, 

 says : — " In accordance with your wish I give a short note on the 

 condition of lepidopterous life this year. I have been into Southern 

 Kent and Sussex and never before in my experience found so few 

 day-flying lepidoptera. 



" The South Downs, which in the month of June generally swaiTn 

 with blue butterflies of the genus Lyca^na, are this year almost 

 without them ; certainly, where hundreds usually occur, only units 

 Can be found. 



" The day-flying moths and Sphingidte are equally rare. 



" Another curious fact is, that all that I found were late in their 

 appearance ; by this I mean that many insects were common as late 

 as the last day in June. 



" I consider the wet winter destroyed the ova, pupee, and larvai 

 of the different species." 



Third Quarter (July, August, September). — Till the 19th July the 



