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gone, and in about a minute the skin was drawn off the lips—the 
toad had eaten its own skin, and there it stood with its new covering 
as bright as if it had been fresh varnished. I endeavoured to touch 
it, to feel if it was clammy, but the creature gave a vigorous jump, 
and the soil adhered to its legs. I looked at it in an hour afterwards ; 
it had then begun to resume its dingy brown colour. The time it 
took to get off its head-dress was only a few minutes. . It appeared to 
me that each time its jaw opened it drew the skin forward, while it 
distended the body on the side to be uncovered. W.TurNER.— 
Gardeners’ Chronicle, Mar. 1850. 
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR MARCH 1850. 
Chiswick.— March 1. Hazy: very fine: overcast. 2. Densely overcast. 3. 
Cloudy. 4. Cloudy: clear and frosty at night. 5. Frosty: fine: cloudy. 
6,7. Foggy: fine: clear. & Hazy. 9. Slight fog: fine: clear. 10. Very fine. 
11. Clear and fine: frosty. 12. Frosty: very fine: clear. 13. Frosty, with 
slight fog: very fine. 14. Overcast. 15. Overcast: clear, with sharp’frost at night. 
16. Frosty: overcast: clear. 17. Frosty: cloudy: sunshine occasionally: clear and 
frosty. 18, Frosty and fine, 19, 20. Cloudy, 21. Cloudy and cold: clear and 
frosty. 22. Hoar-frost: cloudy. 23. Heavy clouds: sleet-showers. 24. Slight 
fall of snow-flakes : severe frost at night. 25. Clear and frosty: cloudy: clear: 
frosty. 26. Overcast. 27. Foggy: slight haze: frosty. 28. Slight haze: bright 
sun with dry cold air: clear and frosty. 29. Foggy: cloudy: clear. 930, 31. 
Overcast. 
Mean temperature of the Month  .,.....sscsccessecsssecscveeee ST TL 
Mean temperature of March 1849 .........sesseeeeees 4pconde 41 *56 
Mean temperature of March for the last twenty-three years 42 °81 
Average amount of rain in March.......... wieedes drags iceoessae O)°S6inCHe 
Boston.—March 1,2. Cloudy. 3. Fine: rainr.m. 4. Cloudy. 5—7. Fine. 
8,9. Cloudy. 10. Fine. 11. Cloudy. 12,13. Fine, 14,15, Cloudy. 16. 
Cloudy: rain a.m. 17,18. Fine. .19. Cloudy: rain a.m. 20. Cloudy. 21. 
Fine. 22. Cloudy. 23. Fine: rain early a.m. 24. Cloudy : snow a.m. and p.m. 
25. Cloudy. 26,27. Fine, 28. Fine: raina.m. 29, 30. Fine. $1. Cloudy: 
rain A.M. 
Applegarth Manse, Dumfries-shire—March 1. Fine: a shower early a.m. 2. 
Slight shower during night: thick p.m. 3. Rain heavy a.m.: cleared. 4. Frost: 
clear and fine, 5. Moistallday. 6. Mild and growing: moist. 7. Fine spring 
day. 8. Still finer: clear and warm. 9. Dull and moist: slight shower. 10. 
Clear and fine: slight shower. 11. Frost: clearand bright. 12. Frost: cloudy. 
13. Frost, notsosevere. 14,15. Mild: cloudy: no frost. 16. East wind: dull. 
17. Dull: raw: cold: shower. 18. Dull and cloudy, but mild. 19. Dull a.m. : 
cleared: rain p.m. 20. Very fine: slight drizzle. 21. Fine, though raw a.m. 
22. Dry, but cloudy: stormy r.m. 23. Frost: snow: wind. 24. Hard frost: 
snow: calmp.m. 25. Frost very hard: thermometer 213°. 26. Frost slight : 
heavy snow a.m. 27. Frost severe: snow again. 28. Frost still harder: clear. 
29. Frost still. 30, Frost moderate: hail: rainr.m. 31, Rain: cloudy and 
foggy P.M. 
Mean temperature of the Month .,......seeeresessececssssseeeees 40S 
Mean temperature of March 1849 ...... Tet asaacdeeae o secesese 41 ‘8 
Mean temperature of March for the last twenty-eight years, 39 °6 
Average rain in March for twenty-three years .......6.,..00+ 2°35 inches. 
Sandwick Manse, Orkney.—March 1. Showers: drops. 2. Drizzle. 3. Cloudy: 
showers. 4, Snow: cloudy. 5. Damp: rain. 6. Drizzle: cloudy. 7. Damp. 
8. Fine: drizzle. 9. Cloudy: showers. 10. Sleet: aurora. 11, Bright: clear: 
aurora. 12, Drizzle. 13, Damp: drizzle. 14. Drizzle: damp. 15. Bright: 
damp. 16. Cloudy. 17. Drops: showers. 18. Hazy: cloudy. 19. Cloudy. 
20. Bright: drops. 21. Cloudy: drops. 22. Showers: snow-showers. 23, 
Hail-showers: snow-showers. 24. Snow-drift: snow-showers. 25, Snow- 
showers; large halo, 26, Snow-showers, 27, 28. Bright; snow-showers, 29, 
Bright ; clear, 30, Cloudy, 31, Drops: cloudy, 
