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occasion of taking the train from Oxford to Bath during some 
severe weather in the month of November, snow began to fall 
immediately on quitting the Oxford station, and the fall kept 
increasing the whole way to Box. On entering the tunnel it 
was still falling thick, and the ground was quite covered ; but on 
the train emerging from the tunnel at the other end, it was found 
to be raining instead of snowing and the fields were green. At 
Bath no snow fell all that day. 
I now pass to the results obtained from the meteorological 
observations made at the Bath Literary Institution since March, 
1865. Those that are generally first treated of in a paper of this 
kind relating to climate are the Barometric observations ; but I 
regret that there is very little to say on this part of our subject 
on the present occasion, the Barometer in the reading-room of the 
Institution, the only one used in the daily registers previous to 
the commencement of the present year (1875), being a very old 
one made by Cary many years ago, and not admitting of the 
corrections necessary to be attended to at the present day in order 
to render the observations of any scientific worth. At the same time 
I am glad to think that there is now a much better instrument, 
a Fortin’s Barometer made by Casella, to take the place of the 
old one, observations with which were commenced on Ist January 
last, so that after another decade of years we may hope to see 
this deficiency in the present results supplied. 
Nevertheless I may make one or two statements with regard to 
these results such as they are. The mean height of the Barometer 
for ten years from March 1st, 1865, as determined by the old 
instrument, and corrected to sea level, is 29.944 inc. The greatest 
observed height during the ten years was 30.777 inc, on 
December 15th, 1865. The lowest observed height was 28.400 
inc., on January 20th, 1873 ; giving a range of 2.370inc. The 
greatest yearly height occurred four times in December, twice in 
March, and once in each of the months of January, February, 
April and November, The lowest yearly height occurred four 
