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ham ; on June 13 at Hartwell House, Radcliffe Observatory, 

 Oxford, and at Rose Hill near Oxford ; on June 26 near Man- 

 chester; and on June 27 at Nottingham and at Chesterfield. 



Thunder-storms occurred on April 2 at Wakefield, Leeds, 

 Liverpool, Stonyhurst and Whitehaven ; on the 8th at Uck- 

 field ; on the 10th at Aylesbury; on the 1 1th at Hartwell 

 Rectory, Stone, Cardington and Saffron Walden ; on the 

 12th at Uckfield, Greenwich, London and Saffron Walden ; 

 on the 13th at Greenwich; on the 17th at Norwich ; on the 

 20th at Holkham, Nottingham and Exeter ; on the 23rd at 

 Hawarden. On May 7 at Uckfield; on the 13th at Leeds 

 and Hawarden; on the 17th at Uckfield; on the 19th at 

 Derby; on the 22nd at Stonyhurst; on the 23rd at Stone, 

 Hartwell Rectory, Hartwell House, Leinslade, Bucks, Rose 

 Hill, Oxford, Cardington, Saffron Walden, Derby, Notting- 

 ham, Liverpool, Leeds and Manchester ; on the 24th at Hart- 

 well Rectory, Stone, Hartwell House, Rose Hill, Oxford, and 

 Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford ; on the 26th at Norwich ; on 

 the 27th at Leeds, Manchester, Durham and North Shields; 

 on the 30th at Hartwell House, Liverpool and Stonyhurst ; 

 on the 31st at Stone and Rose Hill, Oxford. On June 5 at 

 W'akefield, North Shields and Durham; on the 6th at Hart- 

 well House, Hartwell Rectory, Leeds, Stonyhurst, Durham 

 and Whitehaven ; on the 7th at Leeds; on the 12th at Hel- 

 ston ; on the 13th at Uckfield; on the 16th at Durham; on 

 the 17th at North Shields; on the 25th at Wakefield and 

 Leeds; on the 26th at Guernsey, Helston, Falmouth, Truro, 

 Exeter, Uckfield, Southampton, St. John's Wood, Greenwich, 

 Stone, Aylesbury, Hartwell House, Hartwell Rectory, Lein- 

 slade, Bucks, Saffron Walden, Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, 

 and Cardington; on the 27th at Guernsey, Jersey, Exeter, Chi- 

 chester, Uckfield, Helston, Southampton, St. John's Wood, 

 and Hartwell Rectory; on the 28th at Greenwich, Chichester, 

 St. John's Wood, Uckfield and Hartwell House. 



Of these storms that of the 26th of June was the worst. It 

 was described by J. Johnson, Esq., of Oxford Observatory, as 

 the most violent storm of thunder and lightning ever remem- 

 bered there. It began about 2 h 30 m p.m., and lasted till about 

 4I1 3Qm p M# Two college towers were struck by lightning. 

 No life was lost; but he had heard of five persons (three 

 children) who were thrown down by the violence of the light- 

 ning. There appears to have been two storms, one succeed- 

 ing the other after an interval of about thirty minutes. I 

 was not here myself, but the storm has been described to me 

 by two trustworthy persons as terrific. As far as I can make 

 out, the storm passed over the town in a N.N.E. direction. 



At Hartwell Rectory, the Rev. C. Lowndes states, "that on 



