34 



The Naturalist. 



sweet impressions he left on the lives of so many of the truest and 

 most interesting people in both America and Europe. 



There was in him, too, a simplicity, a child-like naturalness, as 

 admirable as it was instinctive. With the haK-educated — those 

 ambitious merely of the name of learning — there is often noticed a 

 conceit of knowledge, an ostentation of attainments, an assumption of 

 superiority, a kind of dogmatism and arrogance, which are as repulsive 

 as they are absurd. There was no shadow of this in Agassiz. With 

 all his mental grandeur and vast acquirements, he was still the humble 

 pupil of nature, the unpretending citizen, the quiet, urbane, courteous 

 gentlemen. In his simple, natural way he went about his work 

 intent upon accomplishing the ends of science, and oblivious 

 apparently of what the world was thinking of him. In his lectures, 

 his private instructions and social intercourse, his travels, and his 

 fatiguing and exacting labours, he carried a serene and artless spirit, 

 whose sincerity was winning and impressive. He was utterly free 

 from the affectations of the pedant, and the robust genuineness of the 

 man had a wholesome and stimulating flavour that made his society 

 delightful. 



(To he concluded.) 



%mnh\\ for Jul^^. 





Heiglit 



of 

 gauge 

 above 



sea 

 level. 



Rain- 

 fall. 



No. 



of 



Total Fall 

 TO Date. 



Date of 

 heaviest 



Amount 

 of 



iieaviest ' 

 Fall. 





Days 







Fall. 









1883. 



1882. 





HUDDEESFIELD (Dalt6n) ... 



(J. W. Kobson) 



Ft. 



350 



In. 

 3-20 



16 



19-48 



n7-45 



21 



0-95 



Halifax... (F. G. S. Eawson) 



365 



3-11 



19 



24-35 



31-48 



21 



0-83 



Leeds ... (Alfred Denny)... 



183 



i 3-25 



22 



16-69 



tl3-12 



20 



0-90 



HOESFORTH . . . (James Fox) 



350 



3-89 



20 



19-62 



$18 -44 



21 



0-98 



Baenslet ... (T. Lister) ... 



350 



3-80 



20 



18-78 



17-69 



20 



1-06 



Ingbiechwoeth (do.) 



853 



4-52 



22 



26.58 



25-23 



21 



1-22 



Wentwoeth Castle (do. ) . . . 



520 



3-40 



15 



20-66 



18-53 



2 



1-06 



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



25 



2-84 



18 



14-35 



18-48 



20 



0-75 



Hull (Derringham) (Wm. 



Lawton) 



10 



3.12 



17 



11-36 



14-94 



2 



0-85 



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

 X Average of 14 years, 1870-83. 



