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Results of a Meteorological Journal, kept at Harraby, near 

 Carlisle, for the year 18-10. By Joseph Atkinson, Esq. 



Barometer. 



Mean height at 9 a. m. . . 29.801 

 Mean height at 9 p. m. . . 29.876 

 Mean height at both, . . . 29.808 

 Highest a.m. — on the 8th 



March, 30.729 



Lowest a.m. — on the 26th 



January, 28.506 



Highest p.m. — on the 8th 



March, 30.705 



Lowest p.m. — on the 13th 



November, 28.483 



Thermometer. 

 Mean of maximum, .... 52.8 

 Mean of minimum, .... 43.3 



Mean of both 48.0 



Highest — on the 7th August, 74.0 

 Lowest— on the 24 th December, 21.5 



Rain. 



Total quantity, 32.095 



Average total quantity for 



24 years, 30.558 



Number of days on which 



rain fell, 209, Snow, 18, . 227 

 Average number of days for 



24 years, 187 



Wind. 



Number of Days. 



N. 121 E . 203 s . 19J w . 42 



NNE. 14A ESE. 7 8SW. 24| WNW.16 



NE. 14A se. 20£sw. 39|nw. Hi 



ENE. 201 SSE. 22 £ WSW.70J NNW.lOf 



DATS. 



Total easterly, 132£ 



Total westerly 233f 



Calm, 56 



Moderate, 248J 



Breeze, 27| 



Strong breeze, 13 1 



Stormy, 20 , 



Weather. 



Clear, 4G£ 



Sun shone out, 288 



Cloudy, 92£ 



Eain, 209, Snow, 18, . . . .227 



Frost, 49 



Thunder, 9 



Hail, 3 



Description of several Neiv or Hare Plants which have lately 

 Flowered in the Neighbourhood of Edinburgh, and chiefly in 

 the "Boyal Botanic Garden. By Dr Graham, Professor of 

 Botany. 



March 10. 1841. 

 Acacia sctigera, A. Cunningham. 



A. setifjera ; pilosa ; ramis diffusis tcretibus ; phvllodiis cllipticis, ob- 

 liquis, undulato-tortuosis, venosis, marginatis, marginis basi supe- 

 riore uniglandulosis, apice in mucroneni elongatum subulato-setifor- 

 mem acuminatis ; pedunculis axilhuibus monocephalis (vol capitato- 

 racemosis) phyllodio longioribus, foliis superioribus sub florcs srepe 

 abortivis. — Hooker. 

 Acacia sctigera. All. Cunn. in Herb. Hook. — Hook. Iconcs, 166. 



