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removed if a sufficient number of meteorological stations could be found which 
represent approximately the mean height and the range of the height of the land 
in the interior and near the coast, and if the mean position of both the inland and 
the maritime places were almost identical and not far distant from the centre of 
England. From the ‘ Meteorological Record’ of the Royal Meteorological Society, 
compiled by Mr. W. Marriott, he selected, as approximately fulfilling these con- 
ditions, Buxton, Woburn (Aspley Guise), Croydon (Addiscombe), Cheltenham, 
and Churchstoke, to represent the interior of the country, and Scarborough, 
Lowestoft, Worthing, Babbacombe, and Llandudno, to represent the sea coast. 
The mean height above the sea of the meteorological stations at the five inland 
places is 469 feet, and the mean height of those at the five maritime places is 124 
feet, the range in the former being from 184 to 987 feet, and in the latter from 21 
to 295 feet. The mean latitude of the five inland places is 52°12’ N.; the mean 
longitude, 1° 82’ W. The mean latitude of the five maritime places is 52° 22’ N.; 
the mean longitude, 1° 16’ W. The mean position indicated is, in each case, near 
the centre of Hneland (a little south of Birmingham), 
The values for the decade 1880-89 for the chief elements of the climate of the 
five places situated on the coast are given in the author’s paper on the climate of 
Scarborough, and in the following table those for the five places situated in the 
interior, with the means, and, for easy comparison, the means for the seaside places, 
and for the whole :— 
| Temperature 3 
bal S. ‘ 
1880-89 Means Extremes us) 5 = = Rain- 
= 5 fall 
Tia EI a 5 or) 
Mean | Min. | Max. | Range| Min. | Max. | 
7 b 4 i, % | 0-10 | Ins. 
Buxton . .| 44:6 | 37-6 | 51-6 | 140 | —4:0| 82:1 | 85 | 7:3 | 48-09 
Wobum . . | 47°6 | 40-4 | 54°38 | 146 |—1:0| 86:1 | 83 | 7:5 |32-06 
Croydon . ./| 488 | 41:9 | 55°38 | 13:9 | 11-6] 92-4 | 80 | 7-4 | 25-56 
Cheltenham . | 47:9 | 40-4 | 55-4 | 15:0 | —3:3 | 87:8 | 83 | 7:0 | 28-86 
Churchstoke ./| 46-7 | 40-4 | 548 | 144 | 69/907 | 83 | 69 | 24-46 
Ween paises 47-1 | 39:9 | 54:3 | 14-4 20 87:8)" (83: 3 T2" 81-80 
Maritime | 48:9 | 43-4 | 544 | 11:0 | 12:7 | 848. | 82 | 66 |28-33 
if 
Mean of all . | 48-0 | 41:65| 54:35| 12-7 | 7-35] 86-3 | 82°5| 69 | 30-07 
The chief conclusion to be drawn from this table appears to be that in every 
respect, so far as regards our comfort, and most probably also our health, our 
maritime climate is on the whole superior to our inland climate, being warmer, 
owing (it is most important to be observed) to the nights not being so cold while 
the days are no hotter, the extremes of temperature being much less, the air rather 
less humid, the sky less cloudy, and the rainfall less, 
10. A Comparison of the Climate of Halifax, Wakefield, Bradford, Leeds, 
and Hull. By Joun Horxinsoy, F.L.8S., F.G.S., F.R.Met.Soe. 
Meteorological observations having been taken at these five manufacturing 
towns in the South of Yorkshire during the decade 1880-89 with sufficient uni- 
formity and continuity for a tolerably satisfactory comparison to be made,! the 
author gave the principal results for this purpose in the following table :— 
1 The position of the instruments at Bradford and Leeds is not satisfactory. 
