32 METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. 
the full complement of eggs, on which the mothers had perished 
as they sat. 
Snow and frost recommenced throughout the district, about 
the 13th October, or about four and a half months after the 
storm in May. 
Referring to the reports from Stamfordham and Middleton-in- 
Teesdale, which unhappily only detail the common experience of a 
large portion of the poor and exposed parts ofour district, [am afraid 
that the old story of the two harvests in one year at Cleadon 
Lane, must cease to be related as a peculiar privilege of that 
favoured district. 
On the 30th August, an unusually brilliant lunar rainbow was 
seen at Newcastle. It was visible with variable, but at times very 
considerable brilliancy for two hours. The night was fine and 
windy, with frequent slight showers from a perfectly clear sky. 
In my last report I alluded to a project for the establishment 
of barometrical observatories at anumber of stations in our coast. 
Since that time this has been succesfully accomplished—thanks 
to the munificence of the Duke of Northumberland, and the 
exertions of Messrs Sopwith and Glaisher. 
In reply to some inquiries I recently made, with a view to this 
report, Mr. Sopwith says :--“ The barometers and other instruments 
were all placed by Mr. Glaisher in September last, and have 
proved so far very useful; but the arrangements for registration 
have been deferred until the Spring, in order to complete proper 
schedules and instructions which are under way, and, in a 
short time, I hope to lay before the Club a full account of all that 
has been done.” Mr. Glaisher also says in a letter on the same 
subject :—“ It was very gratifying to find, before I had left the 
Northumberland coast, a week after fixing the barometers, that 
the lives of fully fifty men had been saved by them.” 
The practical utility of the establishment of these stations is 
therefore already proved, and I have no doubt that, when the 
observations are regularly registered, the scientific results will be 
no less important. I append below some additional particulars re- 
specting the prevalence of certain winds at some of our stations. 
It will be seen that easterly winds (including E., 8.E., and 
