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Lightning was seen and thunder beard about 5 p.m. on 

 January 20tb, during a heavy gale ; again on April 3rd, at 

 night. Thunder was heard on May 4 til and 5th; on June 6th, 

 8th, and 29tbj and on August 8th, 9th, and 10th; but no 

 great thunder-storm occurred during the year, and it may be 

 remarked that the neighbourhood of Eedhill is not visited by 

 severe thunder-storms, as is the neighbourhood of Glapham 

 and the valley of the Thames. 



Though there were several hot days during the summer, 

 the heat was by no means unprecedented ; the summers of 

 1846, 1847, 1852, 1857, and 1859 were all warmer; and in 

 other years, 1851, 1858, 1866, 1868, 1870, and 1876, the 

 summer- temperature was about the same as last year. Nor 

 has the drought been very unusual. Persons feel the in- 

 convenience of present want or scarcity of water, and think 

 there has been nothing like it before ; the inconveniences of 

 the past are happily forgotten. The summers of 1844, 1847, 

 and 1870 were all drier than the past year. 



Mr. C. L. Prince, of Crowborough, has been good enough 

 to send me his Meteorological Report for 1884, from which I 

 have gathered the remarks immediately preceding. It seems 

 more rain fell at Crowborough during the year than at Red- 

 hill. He collected 28-16 in. against only 23-03 in. at Redhill. 

 Crowborough is 828 ft. above the sea-level. At Uckfield, about 

 seven miles distant from Crowborough, but in the valley, only 

 23-16 in. fell, while on higher ground about five miles distant 

 from Crowborough, at Maresfield, 26-16 in. fell. 



Mr. James B. Crosfield remarked that our rainfall for 1884 

 was considerably in excess of that in London, while our 

 temperature had as usual been two or three degrees lower. 



Evening Meeting. — April 17th, 1885. 

 Mr. T. P. Newman described two phenomena noticed by 

 him on March 28th, 1885. On the afternoon of that day 

 Mr. Newman saw a miniature whirlwind travelling across an 

 open field, there being no obstruction nearer than some 

 leafless trees, which were three hundred yards distant, It 



