( ni ) 
by some very cold weather ; on the 10th and 11th the temperature 
was everywhere low, the minimum at many places being below 32°, 
and at some as low as 22° and 23° ; the thermometer on the grass 
was still lower. A great deal of damage was done to many crops by 
the severity of this May frost. During the remainder of the 
month the weather was for a few days warm, and then for a few 
days cold, and so alternately to the end of the month. Some warm 
rain fell in the middle of the month, and again at the end. The 
month was most favourable for agricultural work. 
The weather during the first few days in June was warm, with 
the wind from the S.W. ; the wind then changed to the N. and 
X.W., and continued so till the middle of the month. The re- 
mainder of the month was changeable, but was very favourable for 
all agricultural operations. On the 12th of .June at 8 p.m. the 
Island of Alderney, which is 20 miles N.N.E. of Guernsey, was 
seen from, there for 20 minutes as a mirage. 
The mean daily temperature of the air was below the average 
till April 9th, the daily deficiency being 3i° ; from the 10th to the 
18th the weather was warm, the average daily excess being 4°-7 ; 
from April 19th to May 22nd, the temperature was very variable, 
being for a few days together above the average, and then for a few 
days below the average, the latter, however, preponderating ; the 
average deficiency of daily temperature for the 34 days ending 
May 22nd, was 1°*6 ; from May 23rd to June 4th there was a 
period of warm weather, the average daily excess of these 13 days 
being 5°-3 ; from June 5th to 14th there was a period of equally 
cold weather, the average daily deficiency being 5°-3 ; then for four 
days the temperature was 1°'8 in excess daily, and from June 19th 
to the end of the quarter the average daily deficiency of tempe- 
rature was 1°*1. 
The mean temperature of the qiiarter was 52°*9, and was 0°'6 
above the average for the corresponding period in 110 years. 
The rainfall measured at Greenwich during the quarter was 
4'1 inches, which was 1"6 inches below the average amount in the 
corresponding periods of 66 years. The recorded amount was 
below the average in each month of the quarter, the largest defi- 
ciency occurring in April. Eain was measured on 8 days in April, 
13 days in May, and 9 in June; in all, on 30 of the 91 days 
in the quarter. At 41 stations of observation the recorded rainfall 
of the quarter ranged from 3-25 inches at Strathfield Turgiss and 
3"37 inches at Eoyston, t ) 10-30 and 10-34 inches, respectively, at 
Bolton and Stonyhurst, 
The number of hours of bright sunshine recorded during the 
A 2 
