XVII. 



Barometer mean, 29 711 in., being 0"354in. below the average 



Temperature, mean, 59 '22% being 1-55° above the ditto. 



Solar intensity, mean, 100 - 07°, being 1 "84° below the ditto. 



Dew point mean, 47 '5°, being 101° above the ditto. 



Humidity of air mean, '66, being - 04 per cent, below the ditto. 



Elastic force of vapour mean, - 223, being '106 per cent, below the ditto. 



Total amount of rain, 3 - 33, being 0'55in. above the ditto. 



Increase of spontaneous evaporation on rainfall 3 57in. 



Mean amount of ozone 7 57, being 07 of chromatic scale above ditto. 



Electricity active when the air is clear and the sky serene, and then generally plus. 

 In damp or rainy weather the electricity is usually minus. During a storm first plus 

 then nil, then minimum with rapid changes. 



Thunder and Lightning on the 13th and 27th. A fresh fall of Snow on Mount 

 Wellington on the 19th. 



FRANCIS ABBOTT. 



Results of Meteorological Observations taken at New Norfolk for November, 1874. 



Barometer mean of three daily readings, (corrected and reduced) 29'739in. 



Thermometer mean of ditto, 57°.24. 



Elastic force of vapor, mean of ditto - 419in. 



Humidity mean of ditto, *88. 



Solar intensity, mean of maximum, 112°.2. 



Terrestrial radiation, mean of minimum, 4326. 



Rainfall, 5 - 35 inches, in excess of evaporation '45in. 



Evaporation, 4 90in. 



Clouds, mean daily amount, 6'9. (Scale, 1-10.) 



Ozone, mean daily amount 8 05 



Wind, total force of 3 daily registers 125071bs. 



W. E SHOOBRIDGE, Valleyfield. 



