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knowledge to excuse them; for who has ever avoided error in the 
wide extended field of nature? Who is furnished with a sufficient 
stock of observations? I shall be thankful for your friendly correc- 
tions. I have done what I could myself.”—A. H. Hassa.u. 
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR DEC. 1845. 
Chiswick—December 1. Rain: cloudy: clear. 2. Clear and fine: heavy rain.. 
3. Overcast: showery: clear. 4. Clear: fine: heavy rain. 5—7. Clear: frosty. 
8, Sharpfrost: overcast: drizzly, 9. Fine. 10, Clear. 11. Cloudy: clear and 
windy at night. 12. Overcast: fine: clear. 13, Frosty and foggy: cloudy. 
14. Foggy: hazy: drizzly. 15. Rain: fine. 16. Fine. 17. Overcast: slight 
drizzle. 18. Foggy: rain. 19. Densely and uniformly overcast: rain, 20. Clear: 
dark clouds, with rainbow. 21, Boisterous and densely clouded : clear and frosty 
at night. 22. Densely overcast: sleet: showery: very boisterous at night. 23. 
Cloudy and boisterous at night. 24. Cloudless, with bright sun. 25. Hazy: 
thick fog at night. 26. Cloudy. 27, Clear’: fine: overcast. 28. Boisterous, 
with rain: clear, 29. Frosty: overcast, 30. Overcast: clear. 31... Very fine :’ 
heavy rain and boisterous at night,—Mean temperature of the month 0°-4 above. 
he average. 
Boston.—Dec..1. Cloudy: rain early a.m. 2. Fine: rainr.m. 3. Fine. 4. 
Fine: rainr.m. 5—7. Fine. 8. Fine: raine.m. 9. Cloudy: stormy P.M. 
10. Fine, 11. Stormy: stormy night. 12, Cloudy: rain early a.m. 13, 14. 
Fine. 15. Stormy. 16. Cloudy. 17. Cloudy: rainr.m. 18. Rain: rain early 
a.M.: rainallday. 19. Cloudy. 20. Cloudy: rain early a.m. 21. Windy: 
rain early a.m. 22. Windy and showery. 23. Stormy. 24. Fine. 25, Rain: 
rain early a.m. 26. Cloudy: rainr.M. 27. Fine. 28. Rain: rain early a.m. 
29. Fine: rain r.m. 30. Windy: stormy r.m. 31. Fine. 
_Sandwick Manse, Orkney.—Dec. 1. Showers: sleet-showers. 2. Showers: sleet : 
clear ; aurora borealis very brilliant. 3. Fine: clear: aurora borealis very bril- 
liant. 4. Showers: hail: cloudy. 5,6. Rain: cloudy. 7. Clear frost : clear. 
8, Bright : cloudy. 9. Showers. 10, Cloudy: rain. 11, Showers, 12. Cloudy. 
13. Cloudy: showers. 14. Rain. 15. Sleet-showers: rain. 16, Sleet-showers: 
showers. 17. Frost: cloudy: clear frost. 18. Frost: cloudy: snow-showers. 
19. Showers: clear frost. 20. Frost: cloudy : sleet-showers. 21. Frost : bright : 
cloudy: thaw. 22, Showers. 23. Showers: clear. 24, Cloudy: showers. 
25. Showers: cloudy. 26. Showers, 27. Snow-showers: sleet-showers. 28, 
Snow: frost. 29. Rain. 30. Showers: clear frost. 31, Cloudy: rain. 
Applegarth Manse, Dumfries-shire-— Dec. 1, 2. Showers, 3. Showers of snow. 
4, Frost: rain r.m. 5. Very heavy rain, 6. Showers, 7, Fair and fine: slight 
frost. 8. Frost: rainrm. 9. Finea.M.: rain y.m. 10, Fair, but damp. 11. 
Fair and clear: frost. 12. Frost. 13. Frost, hard. 14. Very wet p.m.: frost 
aM. 15,16. Heavy showers. 17. Fine a.m.: shower p.m. 18, Fine a.m.: 
frost P.M. 19. Frost a.m.: rain rp.M. 20, Frost a.m. 21. Frost: clear. 22. 
Heavy showers. 25, Slight frost. 24. Frost a.m.: shower r.m. 25.. Fine, 
26. Heavy rain allday. 27, Heavy showers. 28, Fair and fine, 29, Heavy 
rain; frost. 30. Heavy rain. 31. Frost a.m.: rain p.m. 
Mean teniperature of the month * ..... scasenopue venta «- 39%5 
Mean temperature of Dec. 1844 ....... bevasin enh vecii, BEB 
Mean temperature of Dec. for 23 years ........s.065 edie SBI9 
_ Mean rain in Dec. for 18 years ......s.sscceseseetereuses . 3 inches. 
* It would be worth while for the meteorological correspondents tu note the 
particulars here stated in their reports, 
