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METEOROLOGICAL NOTES FOR THE YEAR 1875. 
The mean of all the 9 a.m. barometrical readings for the year 1875 is 29°788 
inches. ; 
The highest reading during the year (30°450) was registered on March 18th, 
and the lowest (28°620) on November 10th. 
The mean temperature of 1875 is 491 degrees, Mr. Glaisher’s average tem- 
perature for the year (at Greenwich) being 49°02 degrees. 
The highest reading of the thermometer in shade during the year 1875 (85°1 
degrees) was registered on August 16th, and the lowest (23 degrees) on February 
5th and December 6th. 
The mean degree of humidity for the whole year is 85'4, complete saturation 
being 100. 
The rainfall amounted to 34°461 inches at 6 feet from the ground. At one 
foot from the ground the total was 35°801 inches. The greatest fall in 24 hours 
(2°387 inches) occurred on the 14th of July. This isthe largest amount I have ever 
measured for the same space of time at Hereford. At Ross Mr. Southall measured 
2:98 inches; at Bryngwyn Mr. Rankin measured 3°11 inches; and at Whitfield 
Mr. Wheatley measured 3°26 inches on the same day. The 14th of July may 
therefore be accounted one of the wettest days, if not the very wettest day, recor- 
ded by Herefordshire observers. 
The amount of rainfall for 1875, though considerable, at least in this part of 
England, fell very short of the amount of rainfall during 1872. In 1872, my gauge 
at 6 feet from the ground collected 42°26 inches, and the gauge in Mr. Davison’s 
nursery gardens, at one foot from the ground, collected 44°50 inches. At Rock- 
lands, the gauge at 1 foot 10 inches from the ground collected 48°68 inches; at 
Burcher Cottage, near Kington, the gauge at 2 feet 8 inches from the ground 
collected 49°54 inches ; and at Leysters (the highest gauge in the county) the gauge 
at 4 inches from the ground collected 54°03 inches. 
These last-named gauges, it must be understood (Rocklands and Burcher 
Cottage at all events), always collect more rainfall than the gauges in the neigh- 
bourhood of Hereford. 
From a calculation kindly made for me by a friend (the figures used being 
taken from my own records) it appears that the months with us stand in the follow- 
ing order as to their relative amount of wetness :— 
Monthly Means of Rainfall for ten years—1866 to 1875, 
December .... 
Sic ih eer . 
mee November... ccces:-cenes 
Yearly mean of rainfall for 10 years—28‘719 inches. 
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