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divine, who assisted Luther in translating the Scriptures into 
the German Kanzleisprache. Dr. Bugenhagen brought out, in 
1541, a Low German version of the sacred books under the title 
‘Biblia: dat ys de gantze hillige Schrifft. Gedruckt dorch 
Hans Lufit tho Wittemberg D.M.XL.I.’ This edition, printed 
in German characters, has the same rendering of John xiv. 23 
as the Worth pulpit; its chapters are not divided into verses, 
and Worth pulpit only refers its couplets to LOA 14. 
122.—Some FurRTHER OBSERVATIONS ON HartH TEMPERATURES. 
By H. Franxuin Parsons, M.D., F.G.S. 
(Read February 19th, 1895.) 
Two years ago I read to the Club a paper containing the 
results of my observations during the previous year (1892) with 
thermometers placed in the ground at depths of 4 ft. and 1 ft., 
together with a summary of existing knowledge on the subject of 
earth temperatures. I now propose to submit some notes on 
the further observations which I have made since the date of my 
former paper. 
The thermometers remain as before. My observations, which 
were at first made on Sundays only, owing to my frequent 
absences from home in the middle of the week, have for the 
last eighteen months been made as nearly as practicable daily 
at 9 a.m. 
During the three years 1892-94 the highest temperature 
attained by the 4 ft. thermometer has been 63°5°, on Aug. 20th, 
1893, and the lowest 88°9°, on Jan. 24th, 1892. The highest 
temperature attained at a depth of 1 ft. has been 72°0°, on Aug. 
19th, 1898, and the lowest 38-8°, on Jan. 8th, 1893. 
The above minima have however been exceeded in the present 
severe and protracted frost, during which the lowest point 
reached by the 4 ft. thermometer has been 38:3° to-day* (Feb. 
19th, 1895), and the lowest by the 1 ft. thermometer 32°6° 
yesterday. 
That the 1 ft. thermometer has not reached 32°, nor become 
frozen to the tube after a frost which has lasted a month, and 
* Postscript.—The lowest temperature reached by the 4ft. thermometer 
during the great frost of the first quarter of 1895 was 37:4°, on March 7th. 
The 1 ft. thermometer was found on Feb. 20th firmly frozen into its 
tube, and it remained thus fixed until March 8th. The readings during 
this period could not be taken, but it is probable that they may have gone 
below 32°. 
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