76 OBSERVATIONS AT JARDINGTON. 
August.—Barometrical pressure varied between 29.55 and 
30.35 inches. Rainfall, 6.45 inches; fell on 26 days. This was 
an exceptionally heavy rainfall for August, the mean for the 
last 13 years being 3.98 inches. Meadow haymaking on higher 
lands was hindered very much by the wet weather, a good deal 
being almost wasted. Oats that began to shoot at Jardington 
on the Ist of July were cut on the 26th of August. I have 
observed that, with average seasonable weather, oats are ready 
for cutting in about 57 days after beginning to shoot. 
September.—Barometer between 29.55 ‘and 30.7 inches. 
Rainfall, 8 inches; fell on 9 days. The weather was very warm 
in the beginning of this month. On the Ist, at noon, in the 
shade, 82 degs. was registered; at 4 p.m., in the sun, the 
thermometer stood at 97 degs. From beginning to end this was 
an ideal month for harvest work, and crops were secured in 
capital condition.’ Strawberries were in bloom on the 30th. 
October.—Barometrical pressure between 29.4 to 30.5 
inches. Rainfall, 4.8 inches; fell on 26 days. There was a 
heavy flood on the Cluden on the 27th and 28th. The last 
Swallow was seen on the 5th. 
November.—Barometer varied between 29.1 and 30.55 
inches. Rainfall, 2.7 inches; fell on 25 days. The weather 
during the month was very mild and fine; in the last week the 
fields were quite fresh and green. 
December.—Barometer between 29.2 and 30.65 inches. 
Rainfall, 3.0 inches; fell on 24 days. There was a severe 
storm of drifting snow on the 26th, 27th, and 28th, with a cold 
north by west wind, which blocked up a number of the roads in 
this locality, also many of the roads and railways in the north of 
Scotland; but, with this exception and a few nights on which 
there was a good deal of frost, the weather during the month was 
very mild. I think I may add that throughout the whole year 
the weather was exceptionally fine and mild; yet it is a year 
which will be noted for its disastrous earthquakes. 
BirD MIGRATION AT SOUTHERNESS. By Mr R. SERVICE. 
Mr Service gave an interesting address embodying some of 
his observations of the autumn migration of birds at Southerness 
during the week from 13th to 19th September last, when he had 
