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3.' Humidity. Fahr. Then 
Mean difference during the month between the two Ther- 
mometers, 1°.37 
Maximum ditto, 2.30 
Minimum ditto, 0.20 
4. Rain, 2.34 inches in 15 days. 
5. Winds, . N. 4, NE. 1, E. 7, SE. 5, S. 1. SW.5, W. 5, 
NW. 2, Var. 1, days. 
Remarks. 
No phenomena of particular interest have occurred during December. 
The pressure has been upon the whole low ; and the temperature, winds, and 
rain, have been moderate. 
At 5 p. m. of the 14th, a thunder storm was experienced in many districts 
in Scotland, especially in Fifeshire ; where the lightning killed several cattle, 
and set fire to some stacks of hay. In England, the same storm seems to have 
extended its ravages very widely : it was perhaps most severely felt about 
Northampton, Leicester, and Doncaster. Here, the pressure on that day was 
very low. At 9 a. m. the barometrical column stood at 29.05, whence it de- 
scended to 28.75 in the afternoon, and rose again a few tenths in the evening. 
The winds were variable, but chiefly E. and SW. very strong. Mean tem- 
perature of the day 41°, 0 ; minimum 36°, 5 ; maximum 45°, 5. 
The last ten days of the month were very pleasant ; pressure moderate. 
Temperature about 33°, 5. Winds N. and W. On the 27th, at noon, the 
force of solar radiation was 31°, the temperature of the air being 34° ; that in- 
dicated by the black thermometer exposed to the sun’s rays 65°. A little snow 
fell on the low grounds on the 29th and 30th ; the" neighbouring hills having 
been covered for some days previous. 
ANNUAL KESULTS. 
We have thrown the principal results afforded by our journal for 1825, in- 
to the annexed Table ; to illustrate which, we think it may be proper to take a 
general survey of the meteorological history of the year ; such a survey or 
running commentary (if we may be allowed the expression), being better cal- 
culated than mere numerical detail to interest practical men, and to induce 
them to pay that attention to meteorology, which its importance to the best 
interests of our race seems to claim for it, not as a matter of a few mi- 
nutes notice only, day after day, but as a science, evidently capable of the 
greatest improvements, from the lights of modern philosophy. It is in- 
deed gratifying to observe, in the pages of some contemporary Journals^ 
strong evidence of a spirit for careful meteorological research diffusing itself 
over the country, and that those who have already imbibed this spirit, are the 
very men, who, of all others, are the best qualified, from the advantages of si- 
tuation and occupation, to advance the science ; and undoubtedly they will do 
so, if they pay that attention to it which it requires. We allude to the agri- 
culturists of Scotland ; and we hope that they will continue to improve their 
means of research, and not rest satisfied with trusting in the popular and er- 
roneous opinions still abroad concerning the phenomena and laws of atmosphe- 
