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of fossils illustrating the strata to be seen at or near the 

 surface, and described where the chief fossils were to be found. 



Evening Meeting. — Apeil 13th, 1883. 



Mr. Eichard Noakes presented to the Club a collection of 

 Mosses. 



Mr. W. H. Tyndall read the following Meteorological 

 Notes for 1882 :— 



The statistics of Meteorology are not usually interesting, 

 unless they embrace some remarkable occurrences or varia- 

 tions from the ordinary features of the weather. The year 

 1882, so far as relates to Eedhill, is not remarkable for any 

 special phases of the weather. It is true that in the months 

 of January and February (fi-om January 8th to February 10th, 

 i. e., for thirty-four days consecutively) the barometer stood 

 above thirty inches, reaching a maximum of 30-88 on January 

 18th ; this is very unusual. It stood at 30-77 on January 

 16th ; 30-85 on the 17th ; 30-88 on the 18th ; 30-84 on the 

 19th ; and again on February 20th it reached 30-78. These 

 were the highest points reached at any time in the year. 

 The lowest recorded was on March 1st, when it fell to 29-00. 

 January exhibited the highest average (30-32), next February 

 (30-23), then March (30-01); and December the lowest ave- 

 rage (29-67), then November (29-71), and then April (29*79). 



In regard to the thermometer, the maximum reached was 

 78-5° on August 2nd, and the minimum 15° on December 

 10th, so that the extreme range was only 63-5°. In the 

 neighbourhood of London we may look in some years for an 

 extreme range of nearly 100°. I have seen it —4° in 1838, 

 and also at 94-5° on June 16th, 1858. On only eighty- 

 two days did the thermometer fall to freezing-point — 

 seventeen days in January, twelve in February, fourteen in 

 March, five in April, one in September, five in October, 

 eleven in November, and seventeen in December. On the 

 whole the temperature was below the average for the year. 

 It was above the average for the first five months ; con- 

 siderably below for the last seven mouths. On eighty-two 



