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the first rotten one on the 15th. The depth of rain fallen this 

 year is = 23-42 inches. The dry days in the year are = 228, 

 and wet days = 137 ; this year containing 365 days. 



In the year 1848 the rain that fell was 27'93 inches, as ob- 

 served at Cheswick. 



Feb. 19th, 1849, a luminous arch in the heavens was observed 

 about 10 p.m., extending from the south-west to the north-east 

 quarters of the sky. The appearance lasted half an hour ; those 

 parts of the arch nearest to the horizon continuing longest 

 visible and being the most brilliant in colour, which displayed all 

 the hues of the rainbow. 



July 4th, 1849. A double rainbow of great brilliancy of colours 

 was observed, and a great deal of rain fell about this time. 

 Wind north. 



Notice of some Fossil Remains of the Bos primigenius, Owen, fye. 

 By P. J. Selby, Esq. 



The interesting fossil remains of the Bovine animal now ex- 

 hibited to the members of the Club, were found many years ago 

 in cutting a deep drain about a mile and a half from Twizell, in 

 a low, flat district, known by the name of the Adderstone Mains 

 Bog, through a portion of which the Newcastle and Berwick 

 Bailway now runs, to the north of the Lucker station. The upper 

 stratum or surface of this flat consists of a thick deposit of peaty 

 earth, and at that time, in some of the wettest parts, was over- 

 grown with willows, aquatic plants, and reeds ; and, in the drier 

 portions, covered with a natural turf, consisting of grasses and 

 plants usually found in such localities, but which now, in conse- 

 quence of having been drained, produces abundant crops of corn 

 and turnips. Beneath this covering of peaty soil is a water, or 

 post-pliocene deposit, consisting of whitish clay, gravel, and 

 water-worn stones, in which, but not deeply imbedded, the bones 

 now exhibited were found. The portions brought to me con- 

 sisted, 1st, of the core of a horn, much broken forwards or to- 

 wards the tip, but with the circumference perfect at the base, 

 and to which a portion of the frontal part of the skull was at- 

 tached ; and 2ndly, the upper surface of a part of the core of 

 the opposite horn, also with a similar and nearly equal portion 

 of the frontal bone. I do not now recollect, nor can I find any 

 notes made at the time, to inform me whether any other bones 

 were stated to have been met with or observed associated with 

 the remains of this interesting skull, or whether the skull itself, 

 when first discovered, was in a more perfect state than when 

 brought to me by one of the workmen employed in cutting the 

 drain. At that period, now upwards of thirty years ago, geo- 



