316 New Patents. 



22nd and 23rd, about one o'clock P.M. heavy storms of hail and 

 rain occurred, accompanied with lightning on the latter day, when 

 some of the hailstones measured seven-tenths of an inch in diameter. 

 Three aurorae boreales appeared this month. 



Mai/ commenced with warm showers of rain till the 5th. From 

 this time till the 19th the air became arid, with a blighty north-east 

 wind, accompanied with the greatest monthly evaporation. The 

 latter part of the month fortunately turned out wet, but the blight 

 was irreparable, and the trees were much thinned of their fruits. 



June was alternately dry and showery, with a powerfid solar in- 

 fluence at intervals, which accelerated the growth of the crops. 

 Haymaking began in the middle of the month ; but notwithstanding 

 the interruptions from frequent showers, average crops were ob- 

 tained. 



Juli/ was fine, with the exception of four or five days, when much 

 rain fell here. Thunder storms were frequently experienced in 

 most of the counties. The last seven days were dry and warm. 



August was very fine, dry and warm, so that scarcely any inter- 

 ruption occurred in this county in getting in the corn crops, which, 

 although light and blighted in some places, in general yielded an 

 average quantity. The quality of both the wheat and barley, from 

 the quickness of their maturation, was not so good as in some years ; 

 but the complaints in the agricultural reports were, as usual, more 

 bitter than the truth of the case allowed. 



September was alternately wet and dry, calm, and the nights were 

 generally warm. Nearly an inch in depth of rain fell on the 1st, 

 and it was heavy on several other days, with much vivid lightning 

 and thunder at intervals, when the clouds appeared overcharged 

 with electrical matter. 



October was the wettest month this year ; the rain was often accom- 

 panied with strong gales of wind, and the mean temperature of the 

 air was unusually high, as there was no frost throughout the period. 



November was very changeable in pressure, temperature, and in 

 the general state of the weather ; the alternations from warm to 

 cold, and from dry to wet, were sudden and often. 



December was very wet, boisterous, and mild till the 22nd, then 

 dry and fine, with some sharp frosts to the end. Such a long con- 

 tinuance of hard gales from the S, and S.W. had not been experi- 

 enced for many years. 



LIST OF NEW PATENTS. 



To B. C. Wetterstedt, Whitechapel-road, for a composition or 

 combination of materials for sheathing, painting, or preserving ship 

 bottoms, and for other purposes. — Dated the 6th of July lb31. — 

 — 6 months allowed to enrol specification. 



To R. Hicks, Wimpole-street, surgeon, for certain improvements 

 in culinary apparatus. — 6th of July. — 6 months. 



To A. Jacquesson, esq., Leicester-square, for certain improve- 

 ments in machinery applicable to lithographic and other printing. 

 Communicated by a foreigner. — 6th of July. — 6 months. 



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