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mr. a. w. preston’s meteorological notes. 
on one occasion as many as five large Sharks (Porbeagles) were 
lying on the Fish Wharf at one time. Last season only one 
Porpoise was brought in, and one Porbeagle Shark ( Lanina 
cornubica ), a species which has of late years been far more in 
evidence than the Blue Shark ( Cor char ius glaucus). In some 
years the Piked Dog ( Acanthus vulgaris) is abundant, hut was 
exceedingly scarce in 1899, and the usual admixture of Whitings 
were conspicuously absent, the immense shoals of Herrings having 
the place almost entirely to themselves, even to the exclusion, to 
a great extent, of the Mackerel shoals, which in previous years 
had been arriving in Autumn in increasing numbers. Two or 
three Anchovies ( Eng vaults encrasieliolas ) were taken. Gannets, 
Guillemots, Gulls in abundance, and several other species of Herring- 
loving birds, were met with as usual. 
YII. 
METEOROLOGICAL ROTES, 1899. 
(From observations taken at Bradestone House, Brundall, Norfolk.) 
By Arthur W. Preston, F. R. Met. Soc. 
Read 27tli January , 1900. 
January. 
Iiiis was a very mild month, although the mean temperature was 
1.4 degrees lower than that of January, 1898. With that exception 
there has been no other January so mild since 1884. The wind 
was almost continuously in a south-westerly direction till the 23rd, 
and at times blew very strongly, accompanied by squalls of rain. 
Hie heaviest gale was on the 13th, hut a very windy period was 
irom the 18th to the 22nd, during a considerable part of which it 
blew at gale force. From the 23rd to the end of the month the 
