468 Meteorological Observations. 



My friend Mr. Bowerbank examined this Mould with the micro- 

 scope. When highly magnified, many of the main filaments exhi- 

 bited slight protuberances, which were supposed to be incipient 

 branches ; these were sometimes opposed to each other, and sometimes 

 they were not quite in opposition. The sporules varied considerably 

 in size, and were ovate or elliptical. Placed in water between glasses, 

 after a lapse of two days it was found that most of the sporules had 

 germinated, each emitting a single filament, which was sparingly and 

 irregularly branched, and contained some very minute granules. — 

 From the Transactions of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, vol. ii. 

 p. 213. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR APRIL 1848. 



Chiswick. — April 1. Foggy : very fine : clear. 2. Foggy in the morning: very 

 fine. 3,4. Slight fog : fine. 5. Fine. 6. Overcast : very fine. 7. Cloudy: 

 rain at night. 8,9. Rain. 10. Fine: rain at night. 11. Cloudy: rain. 

 12. Showery. 13. Overcast: heavy rain at night. 14. Clear and cold. 15. 

 Foggy : rain. 16. Hazy and damp : cloudy : rain. 17. Showery. 18. Itain. 

 19. Cloudy: fine. 20. Fine: rain. 21. Drizzly : overcast : rain at night. 22. 

 Rain : drizzly : partially overcast. 23. Fine : cloudy : slight rain. 24. Overcast : 

 drizzly. 25. Densely clouded. 26. Fine. 27. Clear : shower : clear. 28. Cold 

 rain: overcast : clear. 29. Overcast: fine. 30. Fine throughout. 



Mean temperature of the month , 47°\33 



Mean temperature of April 1847 44*28 



Mean temperature of April for the last twenty years 47 '06 



Average amount of rain in April l*47inch. 



Boston. — April 1. Foggy. 2. Fine : thunder and lightning p.m. 3,4. Fine. 

 5. Cloudy : rain p.m. 6. Fine : rain early a.m. 7. Fine. 8. Rain : rain a.m. 

 and p.m. 9. Cloudy : rain a.m. 10. Cloudy : rain p.m. 11. Fine. 12. Cloudy: 

 rain am. and p.m. 13. Rain : rain a.m. 14. Fine. 15. Cloudy. 16. Cloudy: 

 rain p.m. 17. Cloudy : rain early a.m. 18. Cloudy: rain p.m. 19,20. Fine: 

 rain p.m. 21. Cloudy. 22. Cloudy: rain early a.m. 23. Cloudy: brisk 

 wind: rain p.m. 24. Rain: rain a.m. 25. Rain: rain early a.m.: rain p.m. 

 26. Cloudy : hail and rain a.m. 27. Fine. 28. Cloudy. 29,30. Fine. 



Apphgarth Manse, Dumfries-shire. — April 1. Fine spring day. 2. Fine spring 

 day : one slight shower. 3. Fine spring day : rain p m. 4. Fair, but cloudy. 5. 

 Fair a.m. : rain p.m. 6. Fair a.m. : rain : hail. 7. Rain : frost a.m. 8. Showers : 

 snow preceding night. 9. Fair : cloudy p.m. 10,11. Frost a.m. 12. Clourly : 

 cleared. 13. Frost a.m. 14. Frost : one shower. 15. Frost : very cold. 16. 

 Cloudy and threatening. 17. Rain early a.m. 18. Slight rain early. 19. Fair 

 and fine : thunder. 20. Fine: showers. 21. Rain early a.m. 22. Slight shower : 

 rain p.m. 23. Fair and droughty. 24. Fair: rain p.m. 25. Showery. 26. 

 Slight hail. 27. Frost, keen : rain p.m. 28. Hail : frequent showers. 29. Hail: 

 frost. 30. Hard frost. 



Mean temperature of the month 43° - 2 



Mean temperature of April 1847 43 '4 



Mean temperature of April for twenty-five years 44 "2 



Mean rain in April for twenty years 1-76 inch. 



Sandwick Manse, Orkney. — April 1. Bright: cloudy. 2. Bright: drops. 3. 

 Damp: drops. 4. Bright : showers. 5. Showers : aurora. 6. Sleet-showers: 

 showers: sleet. 7. Clear: frost: aurora. 8. Clear: frost: snow-showers. 

 9. Snow-showers: clear: frost. 10 — 13 Clear. 14. Cloudy. 15. Bright: 

 cloudy. 16. Bright : cloudy : drops. J7, 18. Damp. 19. Cloudy. 20. Damp. 

 21. Cloudy. 22. Clear : cloudy. 23,24. Damp. 25. Cloudy : drops. 26. 

 Snow-showers : clear. 27. Bright : cloudy. 28. Hail-showers. 29. Sleet- 

 showers : hail-showers : aurora. 30. Bright : hail-showers : aurora. 



