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No. 2. A volume containing observations of a similar kind, taken 
twice daily from January 1876 to January 1877. 
No. 3. Twelve volumes containing detailed observations for the 
following years, viz., 1871, 1872, 1873, 1876, 1877, 1878, 1879, 
1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, and 1884. The sunshine observations 
commence in 1881. 
No. 4. A volume containing full observations from October 1876 
to March 1877. 
No. 5. A volume containing daily notes on thermometry and 
rainfall for 1869 and 1870, and monthly averages for 1872 and 
1873. 
No. 6. A volume giving a comparative statement of the rainfall, 
and readings of barometer and thermometer taken at Lewisham, 
Kent ; Highfield House, Notts ; and St Paul’s Parsonage, Cumber- 
land, from March 1854 to February 1855. 
Together with these volumes there is another MSS. volume illus- 
trative of the meteorological history of this district, which I desire 
to present to the Society at the same time. It is a volume of 
observations from January 1838 to May 1842, taken at Carlisle by 
the late William Elliot, M.D. Edin., and was found among Mr 
Ledford’s papers. 
Before a Society like this, it would be out of place to refer to the 
manner in which he discharged his parochial and ministerial duties. 
Suffice it to say that he had many attached friends, that he found 
his chief relaxation in scientific studies, and that in a widely scattered 
agricultural community he could not find much companionship. 
The development of Silloth did much to give him, in this latter 
matter, much of what he formerly missed, and few of the scientific 
visitors left without visiting his observatory. 
His health of late years had not been robust, but latterly 
symptoms of malignant disease of the abdomen set in. His last 
illness, which was of a painful character, was borne with great 
fortitude. No one knew better than himself there was only one 
possible termination, but amid his sufferings he found relief by 
turning to his scientific pursuits, and by the reflection that during 
the course of a long and active life he had accumulated observations 
that would be of value to his fellow-men. 
