hi Proceedings. 
the springs; that those twenty-five miles long are able to free 
themselves from their sway; and that rivers forty to fifty miles 
in length are not affected by the springs beyond the upper half 
of their course.”’ 
Tables of the temperatures of the Wandle and of the Hogsmill 
at various points are given. 
J. BartLerr gave an account of the destruction of trees at 
Bramley and Wonersh, near Guildford, in a paper by Marriott 
on the storm of January 23rd*; but ‘‘ the whole devastation 
was limited to a line of a little more than a mile in length.” 
G. J. Symons and G. Cuarrerton. The November Floods of 
1894 in the Thames Valley.t 
Refer to our county on pp. 194, 204, and give a chronological 
list of Thames Floods from the year 9. 
R. H. Curtis. Hourly Variation of Sunshine at Seven 
Stations in the British Isles.t 
One of the stations is Kew, which holds the third place in 
average daily duration for a year (over a period of ten years), 
the maximum duration being in May. PI. xii. shows the curves 
for mean diurnal variation for each month, and for the year, 
during the years 1881-90. 
1896. 
R. Inwarps. Meteorological Observatories. § 
Kew Observatory, which apparently is in Richmond, is de- 
scribed on pp. 89-92. It was established in 1769, as the King’s 
Observatory, for astronomical purposes, which use ceased about 
1840. Here ‘all English thermometers, with any pretensions 
to accuracy, are sent for examivation and certificate.” Other 
instruments also are tested, ‘‘ while watches and chronometers, 
after having been duly baked, frozen,” &c., ‘‘ are sent out with a 
certificate of the number of marks attained.”’ After this, probably 
you will not be surprised to hear that ‘‘ the Kew certificate adds 
considerably to the selling price of any instrument.” 
Various original observations have also been made. 
1897. 
Hon. F. A. R. Russert. Haze, Fog, and Visibility. || 
Most of the observations as to haze were made at Haslemere. 
‘“‘The frequent prevalence of haze during a dry North-east 
wind ”’ was unexpected ; but was found to occur when that wind 
prevailed only to a comparatively small height, with the upper 
* Quart. Journ. Roy. Meteor. Soc., vol. xxi, p. 104. 
t Ibid., pp. 189, &e., 
t Ibid., p. 216. 
§ Ibid., vol. xxii, p. 81. 
|| Ibid., vol. xxiii, p. 10, 
