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included, being about one degree lower than at the Institution. 
The mean daily range is also nearly one degree less, neither the 
maxima rising so high on an average, especially in summer, nor 
the minima falling so low, as in the Institution Gardens. The 
elevation of Belmont above the river, and that of Darlington 
Place, are believed to be nearly the same. 
A register of the temperature was kept in the Circus for four 
years, commencing with 1858 and ending with 1861, by Sir 
Vansittart Stonehouse, a resident in Bath at that time, the results 
of which, with his kind permission, I stated in the paper I read to 
the British Association at the meeting in Bath in 1864.* I 
mentioned on that occasion that I thought the averages as deduced 
from his registers were too low, “due partly to the position of 
the instrument used, and partly to the short term of years for 
which the observations had been made.” And this appears con- 
firmed on comparison with the averages obtained at the Institution 
as before given, which are notably higher, and though not relating 
to the same years, they relate to a longer term of years, and are 
so far more worthy of confidence.—In exemplification, the mean 
temperatures of the four seasons respectively, as obtained in the 
Circus and in the Institution Gardens, are placed side by side in 
the following table. 
Circus. Institution. 
Mean Temperature of Spring ... 48°.0 ... 48°.5 
ss DHMMEr ~..5 OO cy.) Oem 
a Autumn .... 50.0. ... BUG 
oe Winter - =. 40.0. 2.) aie 
Mean of the whole year Waa: Ai ee 
A register more complete in every way than that of Sir 
Vansittart Stonehouse has for many years back been kept in the 
Paragon by Mr. C. 8. Barter, in connection with sanitary enquiries. 
In his “Report on the Sanitary Condition of the City and 
* See Bath Chronicle report of that meeting, p. 108. 
