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A paper was read, entitled " On the Meteorology of the English 

 Lake District (Sixth paper, for 1852)." By Jolin F. Miller, Esq., 

 F.R.S. &c. Received February 22, 1853. 



This paper contains records of the meteorology of the Lake district, 

 similar to those of former years which have been communicated by 

 the author. These are given in tables: — Table I. is a Synopsis of 

 the fall of Rain in the Lake district of Cumberland and Westmore- 

 land in the year 1852. Table II. Wet days (the number in each 

 month and the whole year at each station). Table III. The quantity 

 of Rain received by the mountain gauges in the year 1852 (for each 

 month). Table TV. The quantity of Rain for the summer months 

 (May to October). Table V. For the winter months (November to 

 April). Table ^^I. Temperature (max. min. approximate mean) at 

 Seathwaite, Borrowdale, 368 feet above the sea- level (for each month 

 and for the year) . Table VII. Temperature at Whitehaven. Table 

 VIII. Minimum temperature of each month, on Sea Fell Pike and 

 Gabel, and at Sprinkling Tarn, from July 1851 to December 1852 

 inclusive. Table IX, Monthly hygrometrical observations taken at 

 the mountain stations adjacent to the ^'ale of Wastdale, in the year 

 1852. Table X. Deductions relative to the humidity of the atmo- 

 sphere at the mountain stations in 1852. Tables XI., XII., XIII., 

 XIV. contain hygrometrical observations made at various stations in 

 April and July 1848, and in December 1850 and July 1851. 



In the remarks which follow the tables, the author states that the 

 past year is distinguished by several marked peculiarities, of which 

 the most prominent are — the very large amount of rain and its very 

 unequal distribution over the different seasons ; the enormous and 

 unprecedented fall in the first two and last two months ; and the pro- 

 tracted drought of ten weeks in the spring, the longest, though not 

 the most severe w^hich has occurred in the northern counties within 

 the memory of the existing generation. The year is further re- 

 markable for its high temperature ; the large amount of surface eva- 

 poration ; the great heat of July and August ; the great quantity of 

 free electricity, as manifested by the unusual number and almost 

 tropical severity of the thunder-storms; the small number of frosty 

 nights, and the entire absence of snow ; and, lastly, for the violent 

 gales of wind which prevailed during the last vreek of December, 

 particularly the hurricane on the morning of Christmas-day. After 

 the discussion of these irregularities, tables are given showing the 

 excess or deficiency per cent, of the principal mountain gauges over 

 or under the quantity of rain received by the adjacent valleys, both 

 in the summer and winter months, in each year since the insti'uments 

 were erected in 1846, The remainder of the paper is occupied with 

 details referring to the temperature and the hygrometrical observa 

 tions at the mountain stations. 



