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not far from Hamburg. This phaenomenon was accompanied by 

 thunder and a great hissing noise. The sky was cloudy, so that the 

 meteor was not seen ; but three stones were seen falUng, and these 

 were found. It is very probable that a greater number fell. Tiie 

 largest of these stones weighs 3 kilogrammes, the second \\ kilo- 

 gramme, and the third 325 grammes. 



Like most of the aerolites observed, these stones are covered with 

 a black fused crust. Their fracture shows a mixture of several mine- 

 rals of a gray colour, amongst which a considerable quantity of me- 

 tallic iron and sulphuret of iron may be distinguished. They present 

 a close resemblance with those which fell in Transylvania on the 

 4th of September 1852, and which form part of the collection in the 

 Imperial Museum of Vienna. — Comptes Rendus, June 25, 1855, 

 p. 1362. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR JUNE 1855. 



Chiswick. — June 1. Overcast. 2. Cloudy and fiae : very clear. 3. Fine : 

 cloudy : overcast. 4. Heavy clouds : very fine. 5. Cloudy : fine. 6. Hot and 

 dry: raiu. 7. Very fine. 8. Cloudy: very fine. 9. Showery. 10, 11. Very 

 fine. 12. Very fine : clear at night. 13. Slight haze. 14. Overcast : raiu. 15. 

 Cloudy: fine: rain. 16. Fine: showery: overcast: heavy rain. 17. Cloudy: 

 slight showers. 18. Clear: cloudy: rain. 19. Overcast and fine. 20. Light 

 clouds : &nG : clear : yrostr/ at niffht. 21. Clear and fine. 22. Fine : very dry air. 

 23. Overcast. 24. Very fine. 25. Cloudy and fine. 26. Overcast : very fine. 

 27. Dry haze : verj- fine. 28 — 30. Very fine. 



Mean temperature of the month 57°'98 



Mean temperature of June 1854 56 "93 



Mean temperature of June for the last twenty-nine years ... 60 '39 

 Average amount of rain in June 1-89 inch. 



Boston. — June 1. Cloudy : rain a.m. 2. Cloudy. 3, 4. Fine. 5. Cloudy. 6. 

 Fine. 7. Cloudy : rain a.m. 8. Cloudy. 9. Fme : rain p.m. 10. Fine : rain 

 with thunder P.M. 11. Fine. 12, 13. Cloudy. 14. Rain a.m. and p.m. 15. Cloudy: 

 rain A.M. and p.m. 16. Fine. 17,18. Cloudy: rain p.m. 19,20. Cloudy. 21, 

 22. Fine. 23—27. Cloudy. 28—30. Fine. 



Sandwick Manse, Orkney. — June 1. Bright a.m.: rain p.m. 2. Damp a.m. : 

 foggy p.m. 3. Hazy a.m. : cloudy p.m. 4. Hazy a.m. : clear p.m. 5. Bright a.m. : 

 clear p.m. 6. Rain, thunder a.m. : drops p.m. 7. Foggy a.m. : cloudy p.m. 

 8. Bright, fine a.m. : foggy p.m. 9. Showers a.m. : showers, foggy p.m. 10. 

 Cloudy a.m. : clear p.m. 11. Bright a.m.: cloudy p.m. 12. Rain a.m. and p.m. 

 13. Foggy A.M. and p.m. 14. Clear a.m. and p.m. 15. Cloudy a.m. : clear p.m. 

 16. Showers a.m. : drops p.m. 17. Drizzle, showers a.m. and p.m. 18. Bright 

 A.M.: drizzle, showers P.M. 19. Clear a.m. and p.m. 20. Cloudy a.m. : small 

 rain P.M. 21. Foggy a.m. and p.m. 22. Foggy a.m. : bright p.m. 23. Bright 

 A.M. and P.M. 24. Bright a.m. : bright, rain p.m. 25. Rain .\.m. and p.m. 26. 

 Drops A.M. : rain P.M. 27. Bright a.m. : clear p.m. 28. Clear, fine a.m. : bright, 

 fine P.M. 29, 30. Bright, fine a.m. and p.m. 



Mean temperature of June for twenty-eight previous years . 52°'78 



Mean temperature of this month 52 -23 



Mean temperature of June 1854 52 '86 



Average quantity of rain in June for fifteen previous years . 221 inches. 



