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If tlK'ie be cursing, s\ve;xving, scolding, anci ilrunkcnncss in any of 

 the families. (7) If any absent themselves from 2)ublic worship, 

 and who they are, and to exhort to keep the Thursday's sermon 

 and Presbytery's exercises. (8) If there be any servants brought 

 in, and if they have testimonies from the places they come from. 

 (9) If there be any idle persons in families, and profane persons 

 brewing. (10) That none of whatsoever condition be found 

 drinking on the Lord's Day in taverns or ale-houses. (11) That 

 no scandalous person coming from elsewhere be permitted to 

 enter this burgh. 



11. T/w Meteorology of the Dumfries District in i8Sy. By the 

 Eev. William Andson, of Kirkmahoe. 



It may be right to give an explanation here respecting the 

 instruments used in taking the observations which are recorded in 

 the subjoined table. For the first three months of the year a 

 common standard barometer, with Vernier scale to measure tenths 

 and hundredths of an inch, was used. It was considered fairly 

 reliable, though it had not been scientifically tested. But in the 

 beginning of April it was replaced by a new one, made by 

 Adie & AVedderburn, of Edinburgh, with Vernier to measure to 

 two thousand parts of an inch, which had been tested in the office 

 of the Scottish Meteorological Society, and was recommended by 

 Dr Buchan, the secretary of that society. During the first two 

 months of 1887, the temperature observations were taken from a 

 Self-registering Sixe Thermometer, kept in the shade, but not pro- 

 tected. But since early in March last two thermometers have 

 been usecl^ — a Philip's Self-registering Maximum (mercurial) and a 

 Rutherford's Minimum (spirit) — both certified at Kew, and placed 

 in a Stevenson box or screen, four feet above the grass in an open 

 garden space. The rain guage is a Glaisher's, of 5 in. diameter, 

 ■with the mouth raised 10 in. above the grass. The observations 

 of the barometer are taken twice a day, at 9 a.m. and 9 P.M. 

 Those of the maximum and minimum thermometer are taken at 9 

 P.M. for the previous 24 hours ; and the rainfall every morning at 

 nine for the same period. The direction of the wind is taken at 1 

 P.M., mostly from the vane of the Midsteeple. The instruments 

 were inspected in September last by Dr Buchan, and on being 

 compared with his standard ones were found to be extremely 

 accurate. 



