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METEOROLOGICAL NOTES. 
the kingdom and sub-kingdom of Nature. The richness of the know¬ 
ledge so accumulated was evidenced in the two remarkable addresses 
given by Mr. Etheridge to the geological world when he was President 
of the Geological Society ; but he was there limited by space, and in 
the manual he has now written Palaeontology finds, almost for the 
first time, a careful and detailed chronicler. 
In the first chapter the author explains the general principles of 
historical geology, and gives a succinct account of the strata forming 
the earth’s crust, including a very useful and detailed table of the 
known fossiliferous formations. Commencing, then, with the lowest 
and oldest rocks—the Pre-Cambrian—all the strata are dealt with in 
turn up to, and including, the period when man enters on the scene. 
The thirty-six plates are beautifully executed on tinted paper, and 
include the characteristic fossils of each formation. Besides these, 
there are “ one hundred and sixteen tables of organic remains, brought 
down to 1884, embracing the accumulated wealth of the labours of 
past and present investigators during the last thirty years. Eleven 
of these tables contain every known British genus, zoologically or 
systematically placed, and with the number of species in each, show¬ 
ing their broad distribution through time. The remaining one hundred 
and five tables are devoted entirely to the analysis, relation, historical 
value, and distribution of specific life through each group of strata.” 
These tables will be simply invaluable to the earnest student of 
palaeontology. The whole book stands alone ; we have nothing else 
like it, or equal to it in its own field, in our geological literature. 
W. J. H. 
METEOROLOGICAL NOTES.— November, 1885. 
Barometric pressure underwent some great changes during the 
month, the range amounting to 1-308 inches. After an unimportant 
fall, the mercury rose to 30-3 inches, fell rapidly to 297 inches, rose 
again, suddenly, to 304 inches, and then fell gradually to 29-1 inches, 
rising again at the close of the month. Temperature was also variable; 
the mean was about the average. The diurnal range was as much as 
22 degrees; as little as 1 degree. The highest readings were 58-0° at 
Henley-in-Arden, and 56-0° at Coston Rectory, on the 28th ; 57’4° at 
Loughborough, and 56-7° at Strelley, on the 2nd. In the rays of the 
sun, also on the 2nd, 92-9° at Loughborough, and 89'5° at Strelley. 
The lowest readings were 22-0° at Loughborough, on the 17th ; 24-5° at 
Coston Rectory, on the 16th ; 25 - 0° at Henley-in-Arden, on the 17th 
and 18th ; and 26*5° at Strelley, on the 18th. The thermometer on the 
grass recorded 18*2° at Strelley, on the 18th ; 19-5° at Loughborough, 
on the 17tli. Rainfall was slightly above the average, the totals 
reaching 3-97 inches at Henley-in-Arden, 2-91 inches at Coston Rectory, 
2*69 inches at Strelley, and 2*35 inches at Loughborough. The amounts 
were not large, the collection being extended over a period of from 18 
to 21 days. The weather was generally dull and damp. A lunar halo 
was observed at Loughborough on the 13th. 
Wm. Beiuudge, F.R. Met. Soc. 
12, Victoria Street, Loughborough. 
