REVIEW GEOLOGY, ETC., OF WEST YORKSHIEE. 383 



says (p. 242) it " is almost more than any other equal area not possessing 

 the advantage of a Ions, varied coast-line could produce, and the causes 

 are not far to seek. The possession of a tidal river-board giving it some 

 maritime plants, its extent and diversity of surface ranging from near 

 sea level to 2,400 feet, from fen and warren to elevated peat-bogs and 

 Alpine rocks, and the wide variation in its cUmate consequent upon 

 these, are all factors in the sum of its flora." The various influences 

 afl'ecting the distribution of plants are described in an interesting 

 manner, and a comparison is made with the flora of neighbouring 

 counties, together with lists, &c., of plants of Atlantic and Germanic 

 types. For the manner in which the Botany of the district has been 

 worked out we must refer our readers to the work itself, adding that the 

 lists of plants are so carefully reported under the several localities as to 

 give most satisfactory^ evidence of the pains taken to make this informa- 

 tion as complete as possible. 



In the preface the authors say that " The Climatology, the ' Flora ' 

 proper, and their connections are reserved for a second volume," which 

 we understand will be published next month, thus completing a record of 

 investigation and research most creditable to the authors, and one which 

 cannot fail to be extremely useful. W. M.u)eley. 



(JoBEECTiON. — Report of the Burton-upon-Trent Natural History and 

 Archaeological Society. — In the notice cf this publication (ante p. 305) a 

 mistake is made by attributing the authorship of the paper on "The 

 History of Burton Abbey" to the Rev. C. F. ThornewiU. The paper was 

 written by Mr. Robert ThornewiU. 



METEOKOLOGY OF THE MIDLANDS. 



THE WEATHER OF OCTOBER, 1878. 



BY W. JEROME HARRISON, F.G.S. 



Most of our observers agree in describing the weather as fairly fine 

 and dry up to the 20th, but wet and stormy after that date to the end of 

 the month. Whilst the rainfall Vv^as about the average, temperature was 

 decidedly higher. Thepx'essure of air, as indicated by the barometer, was 

 very variable, a fact due to the rapid succession of depressions and anti- 

 cyclones passing over our Islands from the south-west to the north-east. 



Thunderstorms are reported from Stroud on the 9th, Buxton on 

 28th and SOtli, Weston-under-Lyziard on the 29th, Leicestershire 25th, 

 Brampton St. Thomas on 28th, Sjjondon 28th to 30th. 



Snow fell very generally on the 29th and 30th, but melted ver}' soon ; 

 at Uppingham it was four inches in depth. Hail-storms were also 

 frequent on the last three days of the month. 



There was little or no frost till the very end of October, and, as a 

 consequence of the mildness of the weather, many migratory birds 

 delayed their departure, while flowers continued to bloom freely. 

 Swallows appeared again at Stroud on the Kjth ; three were seen at 

 Tamworth on the 15th. At Worksop these birds were seen as late as 

 the 26th. The fieldfare arrived at Tamworth on the l(3th ; redwings and 

 woodcocks were seen near Bishop's Castle on the same day. At 

 Waltham bees were in full work on ivy and chrysanthemum till 22nd, 

 and at Shifual the red admiral and tortoiseshell butterflies were out till 

 the 19th, when also a large dragon fly was seen hawking for flies, as in 

 the height of summer. Primroses were gathered near Melton Mowbray 

 on the 19th. 



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