NOTES 



ON THE 



SUMMER of 1868, particularly the TEMPEEATTIEE, 



as observed in Bath, and compared with that 



of G-reenwich and some other Places. 



BY THE 



REV. L. JENYNS, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S., &c., 



PRESIDENT. 



(Read Becemher 16th, 18 68 J 



The object of this paper is to give some particulars relating 

 to the past summer of 1868, The time has not yet arrived 

 for determining all the elements of the Bath cHmate, the 

 meteorological observations, made daily at the Royal Literary 

 and Scientific Institution, not having been conducted for a 

 sufficiently long period — a period which ought not certainly 

 to be less than five or seven years — to enable us to speak, 

 even approximately, of its true character. But the past 

 summer having been one of an exceptional kind, and it being 

 in exceptional weather and exceptional seasons that Bath is 

 most distinguished fi:om other places, it seems desirable to 

 put on record some of the circumstances attending it, espe- 

 cially the temperature, as experienced at Bath, compared with 

 what it was at Greenwich and a few other stations. 



The character of the seasons in this country depends very 

 much on the course of the winds, — whether they occur in a 



