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sixty feet above the level of the sea^ is mild ; the 
snow seldom lies long on the ground, and in the 
months of Jan uary and February it is no unusual thing 
for the meadows to appear of a vivid green colour. 
John Williams, Esq., of Pitmaston, who has been 
for many years a very accurate observer of the weather 
in the neighbourhood of Worcester, in a communica- 
tion to the editors of the Midland Reporter, observes, 
" The corn harvest is some days earlier in the vale- 
part of Worcestershire than in the counties of Here- 
ford or Gloucester. Again, when the north-east wind 
blows in the winter or spring months its temperature 
is perhaps a little modified in passing in an oblique 
direction across the German Ocean ; for in severe 
winters plants are less injured in the neighbourhood 
of Worcester than about London. The average fall 
of rain about Worcester is twenty-seven inches. In 
wet seasons it amounts to thirty or thirty-one inches ; 
but in dry summers the annual fall does not exceed 
twenty-two or twenty-three inches." 
We are, however, greatly in want of positive ther- 
mometrical records which might enable us to com- 
pare the climate of this county with other parts of 
England, and I am greatly in hopes that the Society 
will give an early attention to this important investi- 
gation. 
From some information which I have obtained 
through the medium of a very intelligent friend, 
Mr. Parker, of Woodthorpe, near Sheffield, I am 
disposed to think the difference in temperature 
between this part of England and the northern coun- 
