Private C 



Latitude 42° 52' 

 .Registered 



Che Mettorological form bro-jght into use a 

 187i; differs in some respects from the forn 

 m adopted witli tlie view of assimilating tl 

 or:; . more closely with those of stati 

 etc., in order to co-operate in a 

 .^teteorologJ■. Readings are added 

 •rmometer, that being the instrumen 

 th^ c-ontinent of Europe. 

 ?be mean is in all cases taken from the s 

 ly r' :_-i=ier3, not from the maximum and m 

 •ction of the wind is registered fro 

 : 92 feet above sea level, and its i 



: itiye quantity of rain that fell unc 

 ijgistered each morning at 7 30 a.m. 

 .:rty-fi\-e years' standard tables are u 

 i dillcreuce from average. 



FR.VNCTS ABBOTT, 



oe of leifing, flowering, and fruiting of 

 phnts in the Royal Society's Gardens d 

 of May, 1876 :— 

 fOTK.— 0\^-ing to tlie absence of heavy 

 tn:i!n months of 1876, the plants usual 

 »er in .May were very backward ; none 

 ided flowers up to the beginning of .June 

 Je accounted for by the dryness of the su' 



