BY THE EEV. R. F. WHEELER, M.A, 453 



TEMPERATURE. 



The following results of a series of investigations carried out 

 by Mr. Glaisher on the temperature of the different months and 

 seasons of the year, and extending over a very long period, wall 

 be read with interest, as they throw so much light on a subject 

 which forms the subject of discussion more or less amongst all 

 classes of Englishmen. 



The actual table is much too long to republish in this report, 

 but the conclusions to which Mr. Glaisher came are summed up 

 by him as follows : — 



"These numbers do not at all confirm the idea that a hot 

 summer is either preceded or followed by a cold winter, or vice 

 versa ; on the contrary, it would seem that any hot or cold period 

 has been mostly accompanied by weather of the same character. 

 The cold year of 1771 was followed by two cold years. The 

 hot year of 1779 w^as preceded by one warm year and followed 

 by two others. In 1780 the extreme cold of January was coun- 

 terbalanced by the extreme heat of March. The cold year of 

 1782 was followed by a long series of cold years. The very 

 cold year of 1799 was followed by a cold autumn and winter. 

 The warm year of 1806 was preceded by a warm winter. The 

 very cold year of 1814 was preceded by a cold summer, autumn, 

 and winter. The hot year of 1818 was pi-eceded by a moderate 

 winter, and was followed by a warm one. 



" The hot year of 1822 was preceded by a warm winter, and 

 was followed by a moderately cold one. The hot year of 1834 

 followed a very mild winter, and was followed by another. The 

 hot year of 1846 was preceded by a warm winter, and was fol- 

 lowed by a moderate one. The warm yeai 1848 was both pre- 

 ceded and followed by warm periods. 



" The mean temperatures of the years 1771, 1782, 1784, 1786, 

 1799, and 1814 were all below 46° : the coldest was 1784, and 

 its value was 45" 1°. 



The mean temperatures of the years 1779, 1818, 1822, 1834, 

 and 1846 were all above 60"5°: the year of highest temperature 

 was 1846, and its value was 51*3°. 



