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VHT CARDPENERS CHRONICLE. 
- [AUGUST 22, 1874, 
Obituary, 
E papers record the recent death of the learned 
Bishop yii umner’s name, until ne ee shad 
the see g y engai ter, gg fora gre y yea 
familiar - plant wers, Fora lon og pe 
of the Council of th = Roat Honea 
oyal Botanic Society also. On 
and a new 
abium giganteu 
th 
ccolabium compr aio ‘probably the oily 
plant in Beaten 
The collection is in perfect era se reference 
has at various times e to r pages. dt 
contains remarkable specimens of Denio ium Kingia- 
um, Angrecum eburneum s Maxillaria 
nusta, which has just given forty blooms, Dendro- 
ve 
chilum filiforme, an lumaceum, se many others, 
all of which will shortly be sold by au 
ishop was sei Li: zine th 
ret aired his pu love for his 
and wen 
pianis to the last, 
ae whilst 
dependent on him Pi d him 
armly reverence his memory, and speak ri hil as 
tine sincerely beloy 
With the collection e se gn Mr. Lawrence has 
in fact it is to 
hey must now 
ment will shortly be broken up. 
The Weather, 
srate eat THE WEATHER AT BLACKHEATH, LONDON, 
hand ENDING WEDNESDAY, SEE i9, 1874. 
len Hygrome- | 
TEMPERATURE OF 
trical De- 
ductions | WIND, | 
THE AIR, tei 
RAINFALL.. 
ure of Mean 
Hyas 2| 
A 
on 
| 
d 
I 
an o 
of the barometer atthe level o ike eak A Ae ing 
ing of the week to 29.86 
to 29.56 inches 
Fie “Dat. clo — crop, 
> ar i Ae enie cloud- 
inches by 9 A.M. on t 
re at the end of the week, The 
as 29.72 inches, being 0.10 inch o than 
iod w: 
Mal and the n daily 
me of the Se peg vies ek, 
readings were r-averages on ry day 
except the I sth the iaito departures “in goed 
being the 13th, and o 37 inch on 
the roth pt ih = 
rg vant So of the air in the shade 
were al Lain en 65° an 
m values w 
eratuta at night were ae changeable, the sirae 
readings being 554° on ne 13th, p. Th qrar on the I 
f 51 
with a mean for the mean ait, 
range of tem ure was 163°, elec being 
212° on the 12th, and the least, oF a on the 13th. 
The mean daily temperatures air were as 
follows : phi ta 8°. To th, ee So 58°.4; 
12th, 57°.6 h, 58.8 14th, 58°.5 ; 15th, 58°.1; 
and their etak es in defect of their respective 
averages—3".7, 4°.5, 3-7) 4.4, 3-1, 3°-2, 3°.4 
of the corresponding w 
tions extending over a bea of fifty 
readings of a thermometer with black- 
ened bulb i racto, placed on grass in the sun’s rays, 
129°, 128°, a Pile on the oth, roth, 11th 
and ‘rath "respectively, a of the ss Tie 
TR 
Bris .W. A were generally periak 
and the ‘wet daily horizontal movement of t 
air was nearly miles, 
sky was generally cloudy, and rain fell on five 
days, the heaviest falls being 0.41 inch and 0.34 inch 
on the roth and 13th fe et and the total 
aaao i asured in the week was 1.04 i 
In England the extreme a Me as “observed 
by day ranged from 72° a t Su and to 65° at 
Newcastle-on-Tyne, with a g or ne aed ee 
country o 4°. The extreme low temper: 
observed by night varied from 58. at "Bradford ‘to 
2° at Wolvehiinpton, with a verage value 
wS 
47k The mean. Jeme temperature in in the w 
211. The high day temperatures Pointe 
Beiween 684° at Bl lac kath and 62° at New nia on- 
Tyne, the general average being sf. e me 
night po ages a shar from 52ł° at Manchester 
and o 
gi oane on-Tyne, wit 
petierat average of sr. he ey one of 
was 14}°, varying RE ye: 
and to I10}° at iverpool. The mean es 
for the week was 563°, the highest being at Black- 
eath, 583°, and the ‘lowest at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 
ep ipee, Mies The average fall over 
the ea was I} inch nearly. 
The weather during the ' RR was dull and cloúdy, 
with fëuent showers of rain. 
In Scotland, ae highest eo ranged from 
663° at A deen Oo 623° at pa a e lowest tem- 
peratur a 493° at Lei at Dundee, 
their evicted being 654° and pr “respectively, The 
mean temperature for the week was 56°, the highest 
being at Piisaks deen, and Perth, 563° respec- 
tively, and the lowest at Leith, 553°. The amounts 
of rain measured d the week ranged from 
43 ze m at Aberdeen to 24 a at Dundee and 
th, the average fall 34 in nearly, or 
re than the av < in E = 
the high 67%°, 
Át Dubin perature was RAS 
pei lowest 43°, the mean 54°, and the rainfall 2, 38 | 
inches, 
Variorum. 
OLIVE OIL IN TuNIs.—In the very riport 
division of t the regency of Tunis called the Sahil, of 
w 
lth of 
e àc TAF ven rise 
effect of this measure was manife “iby tthe tants cs 
the years immediately following. duty, or 
oe kanoon,” as it is > according to the 
tree, from 142. to 3d. Another advantage over the 
old s system is that it yields the State a fixed instead of 
a dubious hci wee from the 
the crops. In rp 
of help to-Nature. He seldom loosens 
the earth around their base t sea? a Toots to _ 
i ste soni apt nce hts, nor 
them, as he might do, horiz T screen 
ther roots by the aaa from the parching effects 
he Olives are gathered 
December and Boa with leather or horn 
the fingers, and the fruit is collected on 
or on cloths Gab around the trunk of the 
for that purpose. Ther two kinds of- 
is not pressed 
great 
blo nity of stone, from 3 to 4 feet long, revolving on 
axis: ores See ntally to a vertical „stake, 
moti 
paste is submi! tted 
the extraction of the 
is given to t cailis 
effected by means 
others, the system 
an 
charges heavy interest, 
all, but loans of mone 
ateri 
ases, of the creditor rather] than that of 
It is calculated pat „duri 
É 
; ade 
Kingdom. Up to this of 
tish trade was limited to the island of Malta, and 
ose 
transit is much lower. 
Press CARRIER PIGEONS, — 
ates incidents spunea with modern j 
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istances per r rts can 
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