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MAY, 1874. 

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Barometer mean, 29 927m., being -046in. above the average. 

 Temperature mean, 53 20°, being 2 '88° above the average. 

 Solar intensity mean, 73 0°, being 4 16° above the ditto. 

 Dew point mean, 47*0°, being 317° above the ditto. 

 Humidity of air mean, 79, being '01 per cent, below ditto. 

 Elastic force of vapour mean, 323, being 019 per cent, above the ditto. 

 Total amount of rain, 373in., being 196in. above the ditto. 

 Increase of spontaneous evaporation on rainfall, 64in. 

 Mean amount of ozone, 5 - 23, being 1'62 of chromatic scale below ditto. 

 Electricity active on the 8th, 9th, 10th, 21st, 26th, 28th, 30th and 31st. Feeble and 

 nil during the rest of the month. 

 An aurora on the 9th. A fresh fall of snow on Mount Wellington on the 31st. 



FRANCIS ABBOTT. 



Leafing, Flowering, and Fruiting of a few Standard Plants in the Royal Society'* 

 Gardens during the month. 

 10th.— First Medlar ripe. 



14th. — Coronilla Glanca commencing to flower. 

 18th. — Photinia serralata ditto 

 24th.— Diosma alba ditto. 

 28th. — Spirsea pruni folia fl. plnenn ditto. 

 31st.— Ailanthus glandulosus. leaves all fallen. 



