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quantities to cause the total fall at most stations to exceed the average 
by from ten to twenty per cent. The 13th, 23rd, 24th, and 28th were the 
days of maximum fall, the heaviest record for one day, however, being 
1:56 inches, on the 30th, at Stoke Bliss. There was much fog and haze, 
with heavy dews, in the latter halfof the month. The barometer, on 
the whole, ranged high, but was unsteady. Westerly winds prevailed, 
with little sun. Owing to the continuance of unfavourable weather, 
the harvest was everywhere late. Although much corn was cut by the 
end of the month, it lay sodden in the fields. We have to go back to 
1860 to find a similar record. 
Narurau History Nores py Opservers.—Haughton Hall, Shifnal.—A 
very few wasps have at length appeared; Peaches attempted to ripen by 
the 30th; Figs hopeless; no Mushrooms. More Rectory.—The fruit crop 
is generally dwarfed in size and poor, excepting the nuts; Whinberries, 
however, have been abundant on the hills. I have not seen or heard of a 
Mushroom. Cheltenham.—Peaches and Nectarines on open south brick 
wall just ripe by the 27th; Brimstone Butterflies emerged from chrysalis 
on the 20th. Uppingham.—Crops and fruit very backward. There is a 
heavy crop of Plums, which, however, is only half ripe. Other fruit very 
bad. Burton-wpon-Trent.—Horse-chestnut, Lime, and Birch began to 
shed their leaves on the 25th. Spondon.—Cnothera Lamarckiana, which 
usually blooms in June, did not commence flowering till this month, 
although close to a hothouse and facing south. Altarnun.—All hope of a 
peat harvest has been given up; scarcely any Partridges in N. Cornwall, 
except old ones; the young birds were drowned. 
Correspondence, 
Fossmuirerous Bunrer Prpstes iN THE Drirr.—Well-rounded 
quartzite pebbles derived from the Bunter conglomerate occur in great 
numbers in the Chalky Boulder Clay of Leicestershire. Whilst examin- 
ing this deposit in Mr. Townsend’s brick-yard at Countesthorpe, about 
five miles south of Leicester, I broke open a liver-coloured quartzite 
pebble which contained a good specimen of Orthis redux, a well-known 
Lower Silurian fossil. In the ‘‘ Geological Magazine ” for 1878 (p. 239) I see 
Mr. Jennings records the same fossil in a precisely similar matrix from 
the vicinity of Nottingham.—W. J. Harrison. 
Lrpropora HyaLina.—In reading over Mr. Graham’s interesting paper 
on this remarkable animal, (page 225,)I could not help noticing one 
passage, which is most certainly incorrect. It runs as follows :— Lepto- 
dora belongs to Baird’s Legion Branchiopoda, Order II., Cladocera, 
Family I., Daphniadz.” Now this is obviously wrong, for Leptodora does 
not belong to the Cladocera, much less to the Daphniade. If Mr. 
Graham will turn to the definition of the order Cladocera in Baird’s 
Entomostraca he will find that one of the most essential characters is that 
the limbs are all enclosed within the carapace. In Leptodora the limbs 
are all entirely free, and the carapace is almost atrophied. ‘How can 
these contrarities agree?” There is no need to say more than that if we 
attempt to reconcile it with the characters of the family Daphniade we 
fail utterly. Will Mr. Graham kindly let us know to what order and 
family Leptodora does belong? ‘The so-called auditory organs are 
evidently antenne. They are what Baird calls the superior antenne, 
and in the male are long and spear-like. The long swimming limbs are 
the inferior antennsw, and the limbs marked d1 tod 6 (Plate V.) are all 
true legs; d 6 is not an antenna.— ENQUIRER. 
