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Meteorological Observations. 
My friend Mr. Bowerbank examined this Mould with the micro- 
scope. When highly magnified, many of the main filaments exhi- 
bited slight protuberances, which were supposed to be incipient 
branches ; these were sometimes opposed to each other, and sometimes 
they were not quite in opposition. The sporules varied considerably 
in size, and were ovate or elliptical. Placed in water between glasses, 
after a lapse of two days it was found that most of the sporules had 
germinated, each emitting a single filament, which was sparingly and 
irregularly branched, and contained some very minute granules. — 
From the Transactions of the Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club, vol. ii. 
p. 213. 
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR APRIL 1848. 
Chiswick. — April 1. Foggy : very fine : clear. 2. Foggy in the morning: very 
fine. ,S, 4. Slight fog : fine. 5. Fine. 6. Overcast : very fine. 7. Cloudy: 
rain at night. 8,9. Rain. 10. Fine: rain at night. II. Cloudy: rain. 
12. Showery. 13. Overcast: heavy rain at night. 14. Clear and cold. 15. 
Foggy : rain. 16. Hazy and damp : cloudy : rain. 17. Showery. 18. Rain. 
19. Cloudy: fine. 20. Fine: rain. 21. Drizzly : overcast : rain at night. 22. 
Rain : drizzly : partially overcast. 23. Fine : cloudy : slight rain. 24. Overcast : 
drizzly. 25. Densely clouded. 26. Fine. 27. Clear : shower : clear. 28. Cold 
rain: overcast : clear. 29. Overcast : fine. 30. Fine throughout. 
Mean temperature of the month 47°'33 
Mean temperature of April 1847 44 *28 
Mean temperature of April for the last twenty years 47 *06 
Average amount of rain in April 1*47 inch. 
Boston, — April 1. Foggy. 2. Fine : thunder and lightning p.m. 3,4. Fine. 
5. Cloudy : rain P.M. 6. Fine : rain early a. m. 7. Fine. 8. Rain : rain a m. 
and P.M. 9. Cloudy : rain A. M. 10. Cloudy : rain p.m. 11. Fine. 12. Cloudy: 
rain A M. and P.M. 13. Rain : rain a. m. 14. Fine. 15. Cloudy. 16. Cloudy: 
rain P.M. 17. Cloudy : rain early a. m. 18. Cloudy: rain p.m. 19,20. Fine: 
rain pm. 21. Cloudy. 22. Cloudy: rain early a.m. 23. Cloudy: brisk 
wind: rain p.m. 24. Rain: rain a.m. 25. Rain: rain early a.m.: rain p.m. 
26. Cloudy : hail and rain a.m. 27. Fine. 28. Cloudy. 29, 30. Fine. 
Applegarlh Manse, Dumfriesshire . — April 1. Fine spring day. 2. Fine spring 
day : one slight shower. 3. Fine spring day : rain p m. 4. Fair, but cloudy. 5. 
Fair A.M. : rain p.m. 6. Fair a.m. : rain : hail. 7. Rain : frost a.m. 8. Showers : 
snow preceding night. 9. Fair : cloudy p.m. 10,11. FrostA.M. 12. Cloudy: 
cleared. 13. Frost a m. 14. Frost : one shower. 15. Frost : very cold. 16. 
Cloudy and threatening. 17. Rain early a.m. 18. Slight rain early. 19. Fair 
and fine : thunder. 20. Fine : showers. 21. Rain early a.m. 22. Slight shower : 
rain P.M. 23. Fair and droughty. 24. Fair: rain p.m. 25. Shovvery. 26. 
Slight hail. 27. Frost, keen : rain p.m. 28. Hail : frequent showers. 29. Hail: 
frost. 30. Hard frost. 
Mean temperature of the month 43°*2 
Mean temperature of April 1847 43 "4 
Mean temperature of Ap^il for twenty-five years 44 *2 
Mean rain in April for twenty years 1*76 inch. 
Sandwich Manse, Orkneij . — April 1. Bright : cloudy. 2. Bright : drops. 'S. 
Damp ; drops. 4. Bright : showers. 5. Showers : aurora. 6. Sleet- showers : 
showers: sleet. 7. Clear: frost: aurora. 8. Clear: frost: snow-showers. 
9. Snow-showers: clear: frost. 10 — 13. Clear. 14. Cloudy. 15. Bright: 
cloudy. 16. Bright: cloudy : drops. 17, 18. Damp. 19. Cloudy. 20. Damp. 
21. Cloudy. 22. Clear : cloudy. 23,24. Damp. 25. Cloudy : drops. 26. 
Snow-showers: clear. 27. Bright : cloudy. 28. Hail-showers. 29. Sleet- 
showers : hail-showers : aurora. 30. Bright : hail-sJiowers : aurora. 
