* PROCEEDINGS 



or THE 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



1840. 



No. XII. 



June 16, 1840. 



ORDINARY MEETING. 



The following were elected Fellows of the Society : 

 Edward FyfiFe, Esq., Jun., Hanover Park, Peckhara. 

 Robert Frederick Gower, Esq. 



Extracts were read from a Meteorological Journal, for the year 

 1839, kept at Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas, by the Hon. 

 John Campbell Lees. The following is an abstract of the Tem- 

 perature and fall of rain. 





Maxim. 



Minim. 



Mean 



Amount 



1839. 



Tempera- 



Tempera- 



Tempera- 



of rain. 





ture. 



ture. 



ture. 



in inches. 



January . . . 



790 



58° 



68^° 



0.99 



February . . . 



8O0 



58° 



70° 



1.26 



March ... . 



82° 



63° 



71° 



0.57 



April 



81 



63° 



72^ 



2.40 



May .... 











June 



89° 





82° 



5. 



July .... 



89° 





82^° 



5.89 



August .... 



88 





83° 



4.55 



September . . 



88° 





.84° 



8.45 



October .... 



84° 





771° 



11.57 



November . . 



83° 





77^ 



1.50 



December . . . 



78° 



58 



68° 



1.51 



