22G METEOROLOGICAL EEPORT, 1868, 



90|-°. The mean temperature for the month (63-6°) was high, 

 but not remarkably so. In the ninety-seven years back to 1771 

 there were nine other instances of a temperature as high, or 

 higher, viz., 1779, 1780, 1800, 1802, 1807, 1818, 1819, 1842, 

 1856. 



The mean temperature was 2-9° higher than the average of 

 the preceding ninety-seven years, and higher than in any year 

 as far back as 1857. 



At Kew Observatory the variations in the readings of the baro- 

 meter were greater and more numerous than in July. The 

 mean height for the month was 29*877 inches. The days when 

 there was least moisture in the air were the 2nd and 4th ; the 

 proportion being 0*47 on each of those days. There was most 

 humidity on the 18th and 17th, when 0-96 and 0*95 were re- 

 corded. The mean for the month was 0'73 ; complete satura- 

 tion being 1"00. 



On the 27th there was a severe snowstorm and violent gale at 

 Braemar, in Scotland. The heat elsewhere was great. 



Otterburn. — The month commenced with a high degree of 

 temperature : 78° were registered on the 2nd, and 81° on the 

 5th. 



Wallington. — Owing to the welcome falls of rain which we 

 have had this month the grass made very rapid growth, and so 

 mitigated the fears of the farmers as to winter keep for their 

 stock. 



Wylam. — A very fine month ; very warm in the beginning and 

 end ; with a good deal of wind in the latter part. From May 

 13th to the 19th instant we never had a fire in the drawing 

 room at Wylam Hall, a longer period than I remember to have 

 passed without one. 



Very great abundance of mushrooms and of blackberries this 

 year, the mushrooms selling for l^d. per quart. The early 

 trains brought baskets of them to Newcastle by trucks full in 

 the mornings. Very few wasps. 



