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succeeded by five cold days, with E. and N.E. winds, a little snow 
falling on the 24th ; the barometer rose rapidly to 30.248 at 9 a.m. 
the 2Gth, a cold day with the temperature below freezing until the 
evening, when 32.0 was recorded at 9 p.m. On the 27th of 
December a remarkable change occurred ; the barometer fell 0. 353 in. 
on the night of the 2Gth, followed by a strong S.E. and S.S. E. gale 
on the 27th; and the temperature rose from 32.0 at 9 p.m. the 26th 
to 55.0 at the same hour on the 27th. The remaining days were 
very mild, cloudy, and squally, with frequent oscillation in the 
barometric pressure at about 29.400. The mean temperature of 
the month was the highest that has been recorded for December 
during the past six years. It exceeded the average by 7 degrees, 
and in no month during that period has the moan barometric 
pressure averaged so low. Mr. Glaisher reports that no instance 
of so low a mean reading of the barometer has been recorded at 
Greenwich, in any month during the last thirty-five years ; and 
only nine instances in the last hundred years of so high a mean 
temperature in December. The total rainfall in December was 
3.G1 in., exceeding the average by 1.64 in. The total rainfall for 
the year, 27.50 in., was 3.82 in. in excess of the average. 
XI. 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
Mammalia. 
The white-beaked Dolphix ( Delphinus albiroetris) . Mr. J. 
W. Clark of Cambridge, records the occurrence of a specimen of 
this rare Cetacean off Lowestoft, on the 26th March, 1876, in the 
proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1876, pp. 686 — 691. 
It was taken by the fishermen off Lowestoft, by whom it was 
called a “ White-beaked Bottlenose, ” and at once secured for 
Mr. Clark, and despatched to Cambridge. The animal was a male, 
quite young and weighing 139 lbs. The principal measurements 
were as follows length from anterior edge of upper lip to notch in 
