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above mean water level, was 30-001 inches; the mean tem- 

 perature, C4°-9; and the mean dew point computed was 57°'4. 



Mr. Baxendell communicated the following table of the 

 fall of rain at the Flosh, Cleater, near Whitehaven, during 

 the last three years, drawn up from observations made by 

 Thomas Ainsworth, Esq.. a Corresponding Member of the 

 Society : — 



Mr. Baxendell, referring to a letter by Dr. Wolf, of 

 Zurich, inserted in No. 1,289 of the " Astronomische Nach- 

 richten," on the variations in the frequency of the solar 

 spots, exhibited a diagram showing such frequency by the 

 relative len-^ths of ordiiiates laid otf from a line representing 

 the time. Treatiiig Dr. Wolf's data by the meti'iod of least 

 squares, Mr. Baxendell had deduced a mean period of I 1*086 

 years, the mean epoch of minimum frequency being 1732-96. 



Mr. T. Hkells read a Paper " On Meteorological Ob- 

 servations, and Observations of the Temperature of the 

 Atlantic Ocean, made on runs from Liver[)ool to Gibraltar, 

 and from Ciibrahar to Liverpool, in September, lb(JO.'* 



