Cuckoo not heard after June. 

 Martins, &c., depart in SejAemher. 



GENEEAL CONCLUSIONS PROM THE rOEEGOING 

 TABLES. 



In comparing the results of this year with the average of the 

 same parallel of latitude, viz., between latitude 52° and 53° N., we 

 find that for Hereford 



The barometer is nearly the same as that average. 



The mean temperature is 1.4° above the average. 



The degi-ee of humidity (1000 saturation) is 799, only 14 less 

 than the average. 



The weight of a cubic foot of air is 533 grains, being 9 grains 

 less than the average. 



Wind. — Less amount of N. and S., greater of E. and W. 



Eain. — No. of days — 6 days more than the average — 1 inch 

 more. 



In comparing the same with the average of 4 years (1846 to 

 1849) taken at Hereford, 



The barometer and mean temperature are higher. 



Of rain there have been 10 days more and 13in. less. 



South and West winds have prevailed over North and East, in 

 the ratio of 3 to 2 nearly. 



The fair days, or those with nearly cloudless sky, and therefore 

 sunny, are about equal to the variable ones, and the overcast exceed 

 them by about 60 days, so that rather less than half the year con- 

 sists of overcast days, and of the remainder one half are fair and 

 the other, or rather more than 3 months, are variable. 



The following Table shows the mean temperature of each month 

 at Hereford, and Greenwich Observatory, for the year 1858, and 

 the same at the latter place as deduced from daily observations of 

 43 years, from 1814 to 1856. 



