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cucumber frames. On September 5 there was a sharp frost 

 at Hartwell House, and at Trowbridge on September 7 and 8. 



Solar halos were seen on July 6 at Uckfield : on the 10th 

 near Oxford and Nottingham. On August 3 at Dunino ; on 

 the 7th at Greenwich; on the 20th at Dunino; on the 28th 

 at Uckfield ; and on the 29th at Exeter and Nottingham. 

 On September 12 at Guernsey; and on the 29th at Dunino. 



Lunar halos were seen on July 22 at Stone, Nottingham 

 and Norwich. On August 21 at Uckfield and Nottingham ; 

 on the 22nd at Uckfield, Oxford, Cardington and Notting- 

 ham ; on the 23rd at Uckfield and Nottingham ; on the 24th 

 at Hawarden ; on the 26th at Stonyhurst ; and on the 31st at 

 Durham. On September 18 at Jersey, Guernsey, Oxford 

 and Hawarden; on the 21st at Oxford, Hartwell Rectory, 

 Cardington, Stone and Durham ; on the 22nd at Oxford, 

 Hartwell Rectory, Cardington, Norwich and Stone; on the 

 24th at Oxford ; on the 25th at Cardington ; and on the 26th 

 at Durham. 



Lunar corona were seen at Hartwell Rectory on August 14? 

 and 16. 



Lunar rainbows were seen on August 20 at Exeter ; and on 

 August 22, the Rev. C. Lowndes, at 10 h 40 m p.m., when 

 standing on Battersea Bridge, London, saw a perfect lunar 

 rainbow immediately under the Great Bear. The moon was 

 shining very bright at the time, and a shower was passing 

 (toward the north) from west to east. 



Fog. — On July 11 at Stone; on the 12th at Stone and 

 Hartwell. On September 11 at Greenwich; on the 12th at 

 Stone, Hartwell House and Trowbridge; on the 15th at 

 Hartwell House and Trowbridge; on the 18th at Trow- 

 bridge; on the 19th at Hartwell House and Trowbridge; on 

 the 24th at Stone and Hartwell House; and on the 25th at 

 Stone, Hartwell Rectory and Greenwich. 



Whirlwind. — On September 30, during a thunder-storm, a 

 whirlwind was seen by G. A. Fryer, Esq., at Trowbridge, 

 caused by the meeting of two currents from the north-west 

 and east. They took a southerly direction, and coming in 

 contact with a thatched house, carried the thatch to a distance 

 of sixty yards, and then meeting with three elm-trees, it broke 

 the tops off and carried them to a distance of some thirty 

 yards : the diameters of the parts of the trees where broken 

 off were about fifteen inches. 



Wheat began to be gathered in Jersey on July 15; at Ha- 

 warden, on July 29, cutting of oats ; at Guernsey and Exeter 

 on July 30. On August 1 at Nottingham ; on the 2nd at 

 Linslade and Cardington ; on the 3rd at Leicester ; on the 



