If 
found since that advantages have arisen from the combination of the 
two offices. In conclusion, he could only say that he felt much pleasure 
in having such a successor as Mr. Haselwood. 
: Mr. F, E. SAWYER said he wished to remark that when he read 
his paper on Earthquakes in Sussex some time ago, he was not aware 
that Mallett had collected the particulars of every earthquake in the 
British Isles, of which there was a record. Having recently had an 
opportunity of inspecting Mallett’s records, he was able to make the 
following additions to the list of Sussex shocks :—During the shocks 
in 1638, “the atmosphere was obscured as if by a cloud.” In 1758, 
on January 24th, at two am., “a slight trembling, lasting but a 
moment,” was felt “in the parishes of Worth and East Grinstead, 
“accompanied by a rolling noise. The windows were made to rattle.” 
This was recorded in vol. 50 of the Philosophical Transactions. In 
1833, about the 2nd April, at 8.15 p.m., a shock of earthquake was 
- felt at Horsham, and was “ more perceptible in some houses than in 
others. Some persons were greatly frightened, whilst others felt 
nothing.” The authority for this was Garnier, who quoted from a 
London letter of the roth April, 1833. These two shocks, together 
with the one mentioned by Mr. Wonfor as occurring in 1692, increased 
the total number of shocks in the County to 21. 
Another subject to which he wished to allude was the statistics as 
to the force and prevalence of wind in Brighton during the last year, 
the anemometer at the Pier Head having now been there twelve 
months. The distance travelled by the wind in September, 1872, was 
- 11,633 miles; October, 10,436 ; November, 13,179 ; December, 12,174; 
- January, 1873, 13,488 ; February, 7,667; March, 7,871 ; April, 8,760; 
May, 9,043 ; June, 7,962; July, 10,308 ; August, 12,846—total during 
the year, 125,367 miles, giving an average of 343 per day, or 14°3 per 
~ hour ; the maximum in one day was 904 miles, on December 8th, 1872. 
After this he could not help coming to the conclusion that Brighton is 
a windy place. At Rotherham the total is not above half so much 
4 but at Worthing it would seem to be about the same. 
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Mr. Scotr asked whether these instruments could really be 
relied on? 
Mr. WONFOR pointed out that there was a very great difference 
between inland and coast towns, in consequence of the land and sea 
_ breezes, It was certainly very singular that less wind should be 
