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above mean water level, was 30 001 inches; the mean tem- 
perature, 64°-9; and the mean clew point computed was 57°'4. 
Mr. Baxendell communicated the following table of the 
fall of rain at the Flosh, Cleater, near Whitehaven, during 
the last three years, drawn up from observations made by 
Thomas Ainsworth, Esq., a Corresponding Member of the 
Society : — 
1858. 
1859. 
1800. 
January 
3-495 
5-415 
7-072 
February 
0-400 
4-477 
2-647 
March 
3-005 
4-507 
5-030 
April 
2-070 
4017 
2-527 
May 
3-805 
0-400 
3-660 
June 
2-235 
2-585 
4-022 
July 
4-000 
2-937 
2*222 
August 
3 107 
6-332 
6"000 
September 
5-607 
0-247 
2-030 
October 
6-010 
4-325 
9-122 
November 
1-400 
4-737 
2-012 
December 
4-605 
4120 
* 5-010 
Total 
41-78!) 
00-099 
53-804 
Mr. Baxendell, referring to a letter by Dr. Wolf, of 
Zurich, inserted in No. 1,289 of the “ Astronomische Nach- 
richten,” on the variations in the frequency of the solar 
spots, exhibited a diagram showing such frequency by the 
relative lengths of ordinates laid off from a line representing 
the time. Treating Dr. Wolf’s data by the method of least 
squares, Mr. Baxendell had deduced a mean period of 11 '086 
years, the mean epoch of minimum frequency being 1732-96. 
Mr. T. Heelis read a Paper “ On Meteorological Ob- 
servations, and Observations of the Temperature of the 
Atlantic Ocean, made on runs from Liverpool to Gibraltar, 
and from Gibraltar to Liverpool, in September, I860.” 
