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drone grub could not be converted into a queen, for they sealed up 
the grubs and waited patiently the time for their hatching. The 
young drones never hatched, but shrivelled in the cells, which would 
lead to the conclusion that the food suitable for a young queen is not 
adapted to bring a drone to perfection . — From the Transactions of the 
Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club, vol. ii. p. 205. 
METEOROLOGICAL. OBSERVATIONS FOR FEB. 1848. 
Chiswick . — February 1, 2. Clear and fine. 3. Cloudy. 4. Overcast: rain. 
5. Densely overcast : heavy rain at night. 6. Overcast and mild. 7. Densely 
overcast : rain. 8. Cloudy and fine. 9. Cloudy : boisterous : clear. 10. Very 
fine : heavy rain at night. 11,12. Very fine. 13. Overcast. 14. Rain. 15. 
Densely overcast ; rain. 16. Frosty; clear and fine. 17. Clear: cloudy and 
fine. 18. Fine. 19. Rain: hazy and damp. 20. Foggy: cloudy: clear. 
21. Overcast : rain. 22. Rain. 23. Heavy clouds : fine. 24. Densely overcast : 
rain. 25. Rain : showery. 26. Barometer most remarkably low : boisterous, 
with heavy rain. 27. Heavy rain : clear and boisterous at night. 28. Fine : 
clear. 29. Very clear : boisterous, with rain at night. 
Mean temperature of the month 39°*62 
Mean temperature of Feb. 1847 34 *79 
Mean temperature of Feb. for the last twenty years 39 *32 
Average amount of rain in Feb 1*95 inch. 
Boston. — Feb. 1, 2. Fine. 3. Cloudy. 4. Rain. 5. Cloudy: rain p.m. 
6. Rain. 7. Cloudy. 8. Cloudy : rain p.m. 9. Cloudy : rain early a.m. : rain 
A.M. 10 — 13. Fine. 14. Rain : rain p.m. 15. Cloudy: rain early a.m. 16 — 
18. Fine. 19. Cloudy: snow early a.m. 20. Rain. 21. Fine: rain p.m. 
22. Cloudy: rain P.M. 23. Fine : rain p.m. 24. Cloudy : rain p.m. 25. Fine. 
26. Fine : rain early A.M. 27. Cloudy: rain early a.m. : rain a.m. 28. Cloudy. 
29. Fine. 
Applegarth Mnnse, Dumf'ies -shire. — Feb. 1. Hard frost a.m. : thaw and rain 
P.M. 2. Thaw : threatening frost again. 3. Thaw : rain; high wind. 4. Heavy 
rain : snow gone. 5. Heavy rain : floods. 6. Moist a.m. : showery p.m. 7. Thick 
fog ending in rain. 8. Heavy rain all day. 9. Rain a.m. : cleared : rain p.m. 
10. Slight showers. 11. Very fine spring day. 12. Dull morning : wet p.m. 
13. Heavy rain and high winds. 14. Fa:r, but threatening change. 15. Rain 
all day. 16. Frost : a shower of snow. 17. Hard frost : hills white : snow. 18. 
Hard frost: rain p.m. 19. Showery. 20. Beautiful day: slight frost a.m. 
21. Raw frost a.m. : moist. 22. Storm of rain and wind : flood. 23. Stormy day : 
violent showers. 24. Snow for two hours : heavy rain. 25. Fair and milder. 
26. Fair a.m : drizzle p.m. 27. Heavy rain all day. 28. Heavy rain : thunder. 
29. Showers : hail. 
Mean temperature of the month 40°*1 
Mean temperature of Feb. 1847 36 '2 
Mean temperature of Feb. for twenty-five years 37 ‘3 
Rain 5*53 inches. 
Mean rain in Feb. for twenty years 2‘04 „ 
Sandwick Manse, Orkney. — Feb. 1. Snow showers ; cloudy. 2. Frost : clear. 
3. Cloudy : showers. 4. Rain: damp. 5. Snow-drift : snow. 6. Snow: cloudy. 
7. Rain. 8. Bright : showers. 9. Cloudy : damp. 10. Rain : cloudy. II. 
Bright: cloudy. 12. Rain: show'ers. 13. Showers. 14. Showers: clear. 
15. Damp : rain. 16,17. Bright : frost. 18. Sleet : rain. 19. Sleet-showers: 
showers. 20. Bright : snow-shower<^. 21. Snow : red aurora. 22, 23. Cloudy : 
rain : aurora. 24. Bright: frost : fine : aurora. 25. Showers. 26. Cloudy: 
showers. 27. Showers : rain. 28. Damp: rain. 29. Clear : cloudy. 
The following are the averages for Dec. 1847, with which we have been fa- 
voured by our correspondent the Rev. Ch. Clouston of Sandwick Manse, whose 
usual report miscarried owing to the stormy weather which then prevailed : — 
Barometer. 
A.M. P.M. 
29*597 29*595 
Thermoineter. 
A.M. P.M. 
39*93 40*66 
Rain 
in inches. 
5*24 
