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wliut more tumid, and at the same time smooth ; but the larger 

 whorls arc peculiarlj' decorated on their middle area with broad dark- 

 brown flames, and arc oblique as they j)rocced from the inferior ];or- 

 tion upwards and forwards towards the left. The crenules are solid, 

 straight, and of a dark-brown colour. — Froc. Zool. Soc. October 8, 

 1844. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR MARCH 1845. 



Cliiswick. — March 1. Dry liaze. 2. Fine : cloudy. 3. Rain. 4. Sharp frost: 

 cloudy: clear and frosty. 5. Snowing : cloudy and cold : severe frost. C. Severe 

 frost: cloudy and cold : frosty. 7. Cloudy and cold : frosty. 8. Cloudy and 

 cold : clear and frosty. 9. Cold and dry. 10. Overcast. 1 1. Fine, with clouds : 

 clear and frosty. 12. Overcast: cloudy: sharp frost. 13. Frosty: cold and 

 dry : severe frost at night. 14. Clear, with severe frost : cloudless, cold and dry. 

 15. Frosty : clear : cloudy : frosty. 16. Frosty : snowing. 17. Clear and frosty : 

 bright sun : clear and frosty. 18. Clear and frosty : fine : overcast. 19. Over- 

 cast: fine. 20. Clear, cold and dry. 21. Clear : tine : overcast. 22. Overcast: 

 slight rain. 2.'5. Rain. 24. Cloudy : clear and fine. 25,20". Cloudy and fine. 

 27. Overcast : boisterous. 28. Rain : boisterous. 29. Clear. SO. Clear : over- 

 cast : showery. 31. Cloudless and fine. — IMean temperature of the month 6° be- 

 low the average; the coldest JMarch since 1807. 



Boston. — March 1. Fine. 2. Cloudy: snow early a.m. 3. Snow: large fall 

 of snow. 4. Cloudy. 5. Snow. 6, 7. Fine. 8, Cloudy. 9. Fine. 10. Cloudy. 

 11, 12. Fine : snow p.m. 13. Windy. 14, 15. Fine. 16. Windy : large fall of 

 snow. 17. Cloudy. 18. Cloudy : snow a.m. 19. Fine : snow p.m. 20, 21. Fine. 

 22. Rain : rain early a.m. : rain a.m. 23. Cloudy : rain p.m. 24. Fine : rain 

 early a.m. 25. Cloudy : rain p.m. 26, 27. F'ine. 28. Stormy : stormy all 

 day. 29. Windy. 30. lune. 31. Windy. — Not near so cold a March since 

 March 1837. 



Sandwick Manse, Orkney. — March 1. Cloudy: rain. 2. Cloudy: rain: clear. 

 3. Frost: showers. 4. Bright: frost: aurora. 5. Bright: frost: clear. 6 — 8. 

 Cloudy. 9. Showers. 10. Showers: snow-showers. II — 14. Snow-showers. 

 15. Snow, deep : snow: clear. \6. Snow : cloudy : thaw. 17. Thaw: clear: 

 frost: clear. 18. Thaw: bright: snow-shovvers. 19. Snow-drift. 20. Snow: 

 bright : snow : cloudy. 21. Thaw : cloudy : drops. 22. Cloudy : rain. 23. Rain : 

 clear. 24. Clear : aurora. 25. Cloudy : clear. 26. Bright : clear. 27. Bright: 

 rain. 28. Rain : clear. 29. Clear. 30. Cloudy : rain. 31. Bright: cloudy. 



Applegarili Manse, Dumfries -shire. — March 1. Showers of snow. 2. Clear: 

 frost. S. Dull. 4. Snow-showers. 5. Snow-showers: frost a.m. 6. Frost a.m. : 

 slight snow. 7,8. Slight frost. 9. No frost. 10. Rain p.m. 11. Clear: frost 

 A.M. 12. Frost A.M. 13. I'rost. 14,15. F'rost : snow-showers. 16, 17. Frost. 

 18. Frost : shower : snow. 19. Frost. 20. Frost : clear. 21. F'rost a.m. : thaw : 

 rain P.M. 22. Heavy rain. 23. Fine spring day. 24. Fine. 25. Rain : mild : 

 growing. 26 — 28. Rain, and wind high. 29. Clear and bracing day. SO. 

 Heavy rain and high wind. 31. F'air and fine. 



Mean temperature of the month 36°"3 



Mean temperature of March 1844 38 '8 



Mean temperature of March for twenty-three years 39 'O 

 Mean temperature of spring-water 43 "7 



