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prevailed. From the lltli to the 31st the weather was much 
milder, the temperature averaged 4 l.G, and only one night of frost 
was recorded; the winds were from the W., S.W., and S. ; the 
sky was generally overcast, except from the 22nd to the 25th, 
which were fine, bright, but squally days. The velocity of the 
wind from the S.W. on the 21st, 22nd, 23rd, and 24th, was 
274, 368, 285, and 330, miles respectively. Barometric pressure 
averaged high and no remarkable oscillation was recorded. The 
rainfall was 0.27 in. deficient, the total fall only amounted to 1.70 
in., 1.34 in. of which was melted snow. Lain fell on 159 days 
during the year, and the total fall, 26.55 in., exceeded the average 
of the thirty years 1841 — 70 by 2.96 inches. 
Note. — No Barometrical nor Thermo metrical observations were 
taken from the 14th to the 21st inclusive, of August. 
VII. 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
Mammalia. 
Bal.enoptera musculus (Lin.) at Lynn. — A whale of this 
species was found floating dead in the Channel near the knock 
buoy in the Lynn Loads, on Tuesday the 9th of August, 1875. 
The men brought it on shore at the back of the stone banks, about 
two miles below Lynn. When found it was in an advanced state 
of decomposition and must have been long dead. It measured 
42 feet in length. The carcase was purchased by a manure com- 
pany, and I believe cut up before any competent authority had 
examined it, but some of the remains were afterwards examined 
by Mr. Clarke, of Cambridge, who pronounced it a young specimen 
of B. musculus, and secured a section of the skull for the 
Cambridge Museum. 
Whence come these dead, and more or less decomposed Fin- 
whales that are from time to time stranded on our shores 1 Perhaps 
