Ilantfall fox Jfekwarg. 





Height 



of 

 gauge 

 above 



sea 

 level. 



Rain- 

 fall, 



No. 



of 



Total Fall 

 TO Date. 



Date of 

 heaviest 



Amount 



of 



Heaviest 

 Fall. 





Days 



1883, 



1882. 



Fall. 



HUDDERSFIELD (Dalton) ... 



(J. W. Robson) 



Ft. 



350 



In. 

 2-11 



17 



7-40 



*5-40 



1 



0*32 



Halifax. . . (F. G. S. Rawson) 



365 



3-38 



20 



ii io 



9'47 



10 



0-46 



Leeds ... (Alfred Denny)... 



183 



1-99 



18 



K-7A 

 0 i'i 



JO io 



17 



0-32 



HORSFORTH ... (James Fox) 



350 



1-90 



17 



5-88 



:4-82 



17 



0-32 



Pateley Bridge... (E. War- 



Tmr+nn M R P S T, S A ^ 

 UliluUllj IVi.. XV. V^. • -LJ. O. xi.. ^ 



436 



4-45 



19 



8-76 



114-29 







Barnslet ... (T. Lister) ... 



350 



2-33 



14 



5-70 



4-18 



1 



0-42 



Ingbirchworth (do.) 



853 



3-95 



17 



10-50 



7-16 



1 



0-73 



Wentworth Castle (do.)... 



520 



2-64 



15 



7-33 



2-90 



1 



0-47 



Goole ... (J. Harrison) ... 



25 



2-24 



15 



4-36 



3-69 



11 



0-45 



Hull (Derringham) (Wm. 



Lawton) 



10 



2-44 



15 



4-36 



§2-88 



10 



0-59 



* Average to date for 17 years, 1866-82. f Average of 29 years, 1853-62 & 1865-83. 

 J Average of 14 years, 1870-83. 

 § The total average for 32 years, 1850-82. || For year 1880. 



§l^gorls d S>ocxduB. 



Barnsley Naturalists' Society. — Meeting Feb. 27, Mr. T. Lister, president, 

 in the chair. — An interesting paper was read by Mr. T. Rose, entitled " A Holiday 

 in Holland, Belgium, and North France," with graphic descriptions of the places 

 visited, interspersed with notes on Natural History. 



Meeting, March 15th, Mr. Lister presiding, — A valuable paper on " Carbon," 

 with experiments, was given by Mr. G. M. W. Hutchin. Mr. G. H. Teasdale 

 reported that an owl had been heard in Silkstone Hall Wood, before the last 

 severe frost. A pied blackbird was seen near Dodworth station on March 8th. 

 A flock of the common snipe flew to north-west on the 5th ; the lapwings had 

 returned to their old haunts Feb. 25th ; many pied wagtails and yellow-hammers 

 noted on the 11th. These last birds sang on the IGth Feb., and cha£&nches on 

 the 9th. The missel and song-thrush, and the above-named songsters, have 

 frequently been heard during the present frost. Thrushes are still scarce here, 

 but more numerous near Hemsworth. — T. L. 



Beverley Field NATURALisrs' and Scientific Society. — 21st meeting, held 

 February 22nd, the President (Mr. J. A. Ridgway) in the chair. After the 

 routine business had been disposed of, the Rev. W. Smith read an interesting 

 paper on the "Cellular tissues of Plants," illustrating his remarks by a number 

 of carefully prepared micro-slides and dissections of living specimens. Amongst 

 the exhibits were 47 species of Gramh/ce, 1 6 Carices, and a very fine horn of the 

 red deer, dug up in Swmemoor, Beverley, brought by Mr. Boyes ; a pair of 

 waxwings, Ampelis garrulus^ shot in Beverley Westwood, by Mr. Cheny ; micro- 

 slides showing jilant-culture, by the Rev. W, Smith, and living specimens of 

 diatoms, marine algae, and Crustacea belonging to the Pycnocjonidce^ by Mr. 

 Butterell. 



Meeting, March 8th. The President (Mr. J. A. Ridgway) occupied the chair. 

 The Rev. E. J. Barry presented to the Society two store cases for insects. A 

 number of carefully prepared micro-slides of animal parasites, chiefly from birds, 

 were shown by Mr. John Watson, and Mr. Butterell exhibited specimens of two 

 zoophytes, Phimularia falca I a and Sertularia operculata. 



