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The following gentlemen were elected officers of the Section 
for the ensuing year : — 
IPrcstocnt. 
MR. JOSEPH BAXENDELL, F.R.A.S. 
Uicc^fJrcattftnts. 
MR. ROBERT WORTHINGTON, F.R.A.S. 
MR. E. W. BINNEY, F.R.S., F.G.S. 
treasurer. 
MR. GEORGE MOSLEY. 
Secretary. 
PROFESSOR R. B. CLIFTON, M.A., F.R.A.S. 
Ill illustration of the abnormal character of the season, two 
barometric curves, neatly laid down on engraved forms by 
Mr. Sidebotham, from observations made by him at Ashton- 
upon-Mersey during the months of January and February 
last, and a summary of meteorological observations taken at 
Thelwall by Mr. Atkinson, F.G.S., during the month of 
February, were communicated to the Section. The mean 
height of the barometer at Thelwall for February, reduced 
to 32 ° Falir., and to mean sea level, had the unusually high 
value of 80'218 inches; the mean temperature was 405°; 
and (he total fall of rain was only 08 11 inches. 
Mr. Baxendell communicated a table which he had cal- 
culated, showing the monthly sums of the oscillations of mean 
daily temperature at Greenwich during the thirteen years 
1 848 — 60 ; and also the mean daily values for the different 
months. The mean monthly results were as follows : — 
O 
January 102’8 
February 84'9 
March 83-4 
April 90-6 
May 83-9 
June 87 # 3 
July 808 
August 78’4 
September ... . 72*3 
October 84 A 
November .... 94’5 
December .... 107T 
