/  D. P. Penhallow—Herbage of Permanent Meadow. 397 
Was simple or complex, stemmy or leafy, mature or immature, 
and soon. These at first undetermined residues, after some 
reduction in the hands of the superintendent, were next sepa- 
tated into portions of different character by means of coarse 
sieves of various gauges, by which the examination and the 
Be cation of the various components were much facilitated. 
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future time, with certainty of avoiding, very largely at least, an 
undesirable element of error. Under such a course, there would 
small, or have quite disappeared. Again, in comparing the 
i the character of the seasons, “oa 
hot applicable in more than a very general sense. As has bee 
shown on previous occasions, too much care cannot be taken in 
Securing a local meteorological record in immediate connection 
Am. Jour. Scr—Tamp Series, Vou. XXVI, No. 155.—Nov., 1883. 
