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METEOROLOGICAL NOTES. 
The mass of matter relating to the subjects treated of is very large ; 
it is skilfully arranged, and is at once compact and brief, yet intelligent 
and interesting. The authors have “sat at the feet” of Professor 
Judd at the Royal School of Mines, and Professor Bonney at Cam¬ 
bridge, and have evidently laid under contribution the lecture notes 
of these high authorities. One side of each leaf is left blank, so that 
the reader may add notes from his general reading, or from lectures 
which he may attend. As a guide to examination work in Physi¬ 
ography, Ac., this is certainly an excellent book, but it is not the less 
valuable to the general reader for guidance or reference on the subjects 
to which it refers. W. J. H. 
METEOROLOGICAL NOTES.— February, 1886. 
The barometer was low on the 1st of the month (29T94 inches), 
but rose rapidly, with two slight checks, until the 9th, when the 
reading was 30 684 inches, thus covering a range of 1-490 inches in 
eight days. From this point a fall took place to the 14tli, after which 
it gradually rose, and continued high until the end of the month. The 
mean temperature, 34-5°, is the lowest in February during the past 
eight years, and is about six degrees below the average. The maximum 
temperatures have been unusually low, the highest recorded being 50-1° 
at Loughborough, 49-0° at Henley-in-Arden, 48-8° at Hodsock, 48-6° at 
Coston Rectory, and 47-3° at Strelley, all on the 13th. In the rays of 
the sun, 93-9° at Hodsock on the 26tli, 88-3° at Loughborough on the 
27th, and 81-4° at Strelley on the 1st. The lowest readings were 19-5° 
at Coston Rectory on the 27tli, 20-7° at Hodsock on the 7th and 27th, 
21-9° at Loughborough on the 15tli, 22-0° at Henley-in-Arden on the 
7tli and 24tli, and 22-1° at Strelley on the 7th. On the grass, 13-0° at 
Hodsock, 18*9° at Strelley on the 27tli, and 19-7° at Loughborough on 
the 15th. The number of nights below 32°, in the air and on the grass, 
were respectively—Strelley, 23° and 26° ; Hodsock, 19° and 25°; Lough¬ 
borough, 18° and 25°. The rainfall was very slight, the total values of 
rain or melted snow being—1*19 inches at Henley-in-Arden, 0-39 at 
Hodsock, 0-38 at Strelley, 0-32 at Loughborough, and 0-25 at Coston 
Rectory. These amounts are less than in any February of the last ten 
years. Sunshine was deficient. 
Wm. Berridge, F. R. Met. Soc. 
12, Victoria Street, Loughborough. 
EARTH TEMPERATURES AND WEATHER IN 
SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 
BY CLEMENT L. WRAGGE, F.R.G.S., F. R. MET. SOC. 
At my Torrens Observatory, situated on the plains two miles 
north-east from Adelaide, I give special attention to the matter of 
earth temperatures, and have recox-ds froxxi depths greater than at 
other observatories in Australia as far as I am aware. The following 
