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haymaking began as usual in the last week of the month, the 

 Newcastle Race Week. 



During this hot weather tlie thermometer in London stood at 

 92"5" iu the shade and 145° in the sun, a tropical temperature; 

 at Newcastle the maximum heat was 82° in the shade. 



On the 26th and 27th, being at Wooler, Yeavering Bell, and 

 Chillingham, at a meeting of the Berwickshire Club, we experi- 

 enced a heat on the flanks of Cheviot, where there is no shelter, 

 which was overpowering. 



On the 28th came two days' heavy refreshing rain, succeeded 

 by fine weather. 



I was informed at AVooler that during last winter they had 

 quite as serious a loss of Bees as had been experienced in Tyne- 

 side. 



The Thhid Field Meeting took place on Wednesday, July 3rd, 

 a charming day, at Ripon and Studley Royal. The Club went, 

 as at the previous meeting, in two parties ; the earlier left at 

 5-10 A.M., and on arrival at Ripon breakfasted at the capital inn 

 ''The Unicorn," and afterwards went over the Minster; their 

 inspection over, the later party, having left home at 8'30, arrived, 

 and had the pleasure of being accompanied over the Minster by 

 intelligent vergers full of information about the history and archi- 

 tecture of the edifice. Perhaps the most interesting part of their 

 visit was that when they were taken down into the crypt under 

 the nave. This crypt at once reminded several of the parly of 

 that under Hexham Abbey. These two crypts and tliat at Rep- 

 ton, Derbyshire, are the only tliree Saxon crypts tliat are known 

 to exist in England. Tlie two northern date from about 680 

 A.D., before the time of Bedc, and were built by Wilfrid, at that 

 time Bisliop of the whole countr}* north of the llumber. In the 

 year 674 the Church of St. Peter, at Monkwearmoutli, was built 

 by Benedict Biscop, and in 685 tlie Church of St. Paul, at Jarrow, 

 was dedicated. — (See Trans. Architect, and Archtrol. Soc. of Dur- 

 linm and Northumberland, 1862.) 



Through the north wall near the eastern end of tlie Ripon 

 (T}'pt is an irregular, rounded aperture, just big enough to allow 



