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stations in Scotland and Wales ; ISfch on the East of Ireland, generally 

 throughout Scotland and "Wales, and at stations in Cornwall and Devon. The 

 next hot day was the 21st in the counties of Middlesex, Oxford, Cambridge, and 

 Stafford ; the 22ad was hotter still at all other stations except Worthing and 

 Ventnor, where the maximum, such as it was, occurred on the 23rd." — 

 Symons' Meteorological Magazine, September, 1868; 



In the same number of his magazine Mr. Symons has published the 

 returns of 94 observers — English, Scotch, and Irish — of whom one, Dr. Fielding, 

 of Tunbridge, registered 100 '5 on Jiily 22nd, " with a verified thermometer' 

 box stand, dottble, with Venetian sides." G. Pigott, Esq., of Abington Pigott, 

 Royston, sends a reading of 99'9, July 21st; ''verified thermometer, m,ounted 

 on, a Olaisher stand, in a very open position." Mr. Skinner, of Bast Sutton, 

 Staplehurst, makes a return of 99 deg., but does not state the position or 

 character of his thermometer (no date given). T. Burgess, Esq., of Wigston, 

 Leicester, registered 98 deg. on the 15th and 22nd. 



At Evesham 97"3 was recorded by K. Burlingham, Esq., on the 22nd, and 

 97 deg, by my friend, Mr. Southall, of Ross, on the same day. In both eases 

 the thermometers are verified and well placed. 



At Wimbledon Camp, Linton Park (Staplehurst), Greenwich Observatory, 

 Epping (Essex), Hereford, and Belmont Villas (Leicester), the readings on the 

 22nd of July were above 96, but not qxiite up to 97 deg. in the shade. 



At thirty-six stations the readings ranged from 90 to 96 degrees, and at 

 forty-eight other stations from 71.6 to 89.8 in the shade. The lowest reading in 

 the whole list (71.5) was registered on the 15th at Sandwich, Orkney. 



Of the high readings thus collected by Mr. Symons, forty-three were 

 registered on the 22nd ; but at two stations, Linton Park (Staplehurst), and 

 Wigston (Leicester), a reading equal to that of the 22nd had been previously 

 registered on the 15th, and at another station (Cranbrook, Hartley, Kent) the 

 readings of the 21st and 22nd were aUke. 



Speaking generally, we may say that the highest readings were registered 

 in England on the 22nd, in Scotland on the 15th, and in Ireland on the 14th. 

 The whole of the readings given above, however, must be understood to belong 

 to July alone. 



But we had, at Hereford at least, very great heat to record up to the 

 5th of August ; indeed the foiuth day of this month was the second hottest in 

 the year ; but on the 6th rain commenced, and the exceedingly high temperature 

 of the year ended. 



During the period of extraordinary temperature I registered, as already 

 stated, 91 degrees, in shade, or upwards, on eight days, viz. : — 



August. 



2ud 91 



3rd 92.4 



July. 



15th 9L6 



2l8t 93.1 



22nd 96.1 



27th 91.3 



4th 93.1 



5th 9LS 



