144 Mr Sadler's Report on Open-Air Verjctation. 



From Mr Peter Loney, Marchmont House, Dunse, Berwickshire. 



February 12, 1879. 



Lat. 55° 43' 30", long. 2° 25' 20" ; from sea 20 miles ; altitude 

 500 feet. Temperature for January 1879 : — Mean maximum of 

 month 35°, mean minimum of month 22*71°; mean temperature 

 28-855°. Lowest temperature on the 23d and 27th, 10°. Mean 

 maximum black-bulb of month 36°, mean minimum of black-bulb 

 of month 15°; mean temperature 25 "5°. Lowest temperature 

 black-bulb on 27th, 3°. Eain or snow in inches, 2*08. Number 

 of days "02, or more full 15. 



From the above it will be observed that we have had no ex- 

 tremely low temperatures, though the mean temperature is low. 

 From the heavy covering of snow we had, vegetation of all sorts 

 has suffered very little. 



