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The use of the 3rd decimal point should be avoided, as when 

 only occasionally introduced it is very likely to cause mistakes in 

 totalling the column. 



For the same reason in all cases the second point should be 

 added, and ten or twenty hundredths should not be entered as i 

 or '2, but as "10 or '20, &c. 



It is very desirable that there should be strict uniformity in the 

 manner in which records are kept. 



OBSERVERS' NOTES ON METEOROLOGICAL 

 PHENOMENA, &c. 



SHAFTESBURY. 9th February, Aurora Borealis, exceptionally 

 fine between 8 and 9 p.m. 



BUCKHORN WESTON. The rainfall of the last three months 

 i n this year has been heavier than in any three months 'since 

 1894, when I first began to take the rain. 



The want of sun during the whole year has been very 

 distressing. Fruit has not ripened, potatoes are tasteless and 

 under grown, the hay crop abundant, but wanting all the 

 properties of good hay. 



Very little thunder all through the year. 



STURMINSTER NEWTON (MR. A. R. HALLETT). On January 

 4th I saw about 2.15 p.m. a large halo round the sun, with two 

 very bright spots on either side, in which you could see the 

 colour of the rainbow faintly. It was visible for over an hour. 

 Sky quite clear, beyond the usual mist round the horizon. 



O Sun. 



Bright spots were at A A. 

 At B it was difficult to trace complete circle. 



