METEOROLOGICAL NOTES.-REPORTS OF SOCIETIES. 1G9 
METEOROLOGICAL NOTES. —April, 1886. 
Atmospheric pressure underwent several variations during the 
month, the highest point being 30’301in. on the loth, the lowest 
29T82in. on the 8tli. The mean temperature was about one degree 
below the average. The earlier part of the month was decidedly cold, 
the maximum not reaching 60° until the 19th. From the 23rd to the 
27th the weather was more seasonable. The highest readings occurred 
on the 27th, when maxima of 71-0° were recorded at Loughborough 
and at Henley-in-Arden (also on the 24tli), 66‘7° at Hodsock, and 65‘8° 
at Strelley and at Coston Rectory. In the rays of the sun, 123-1° at 
Hodsock on the 25tli, and 117-9° at Loughborough and 115-2° at 
Strelley on the 27th. The lowest readings were 27’0° at Hodsock on 
the 30th, 28-0° at Coston Rectory on the 12th, and at Henley-in-Arden 
on the 11th and 30tli, 29'0° at Strelley and 29-2° at Loughborough on 
the lltli. On the grass, 17’2° at Strelley, 19-8° at Hodsock, and 24-6° 
at Loughborough on the 12th. The minimum readings were not 
unusually low; the deficiency in the mean temperature is attributable 
to the low maxima. Rainfall was slightly above the average, the 
frequency of the falls contributing to this result rather than their 
amounts. The totals were : l-88ins. at Henley-in-Arden, l-77ins. at 
Loughborough, l-66ins. at Hodsock, l-59ins. at Strelley, l-47ins. at 
Coston Rectory. The number of days on which rain or snow fell 
varied from fifteen to eighteen. Snow fell at Loughborough on the 
9th, 10th, and 11th. Thunderstorms visited Strelley and Loughborough 
on the 10th. Sunshine was about the average. The wind was strong 
during the earlier portion of the month, chiefly from south-westward. 
A solar halo was observed at Loughborough on the morning of the 
7tli, and a lunar halo on the lltli. 
Wm. Berridge, F. R. Met. Soc. 
12, Victoria Street, Loughborough. 
Reports of Societies. 
BIRMINGHAM NATURAL HISTORY AND MICROSCOPICAL 
SOCIETY.— General Meeting, May 4th. Mr. J. Rabone and Mr. 
W. B. Grove, B.A., gave a report on the excursion to Chirk on Easter 
Monday; Mr. T. Bolton exhibited Lynceus macrourus, a rare entro- 
mostracon and Mr. J. Edmonds exhibited plioto-micrographs of the 
same ; Mr. T\ Bolton also exhibited Physa fontinalis, variety injlata, 
with its curious fringed mantle ; Mr. J. E. Bagnall, A.L.S., exhibited 
Hypnum brevirostre , new to the district; Orthotrichum stramineum, new to 
the district; Primula intermedia , Viola liirta , and other plants, from 
the Arrow district; he also exhibited, on behalf of J. B. Stone, Esq., 
Hypnum brevirostre , from Dartmoor ; and on behalf of Mrs. S. C. Beck, 
Peziza venosa , from Crowell Rectory, Oxon. Mr. W. B. Grove, B.A., 
exhibited Diderma globosum, on dead leaves; Phoma leucostigma, 
Trochila craterium, Coniotliyrium Hederce, on ivy leaves; (Ecidium 
ficaruc, on Ranunculus repens , and Rhytisma acerinum, on sycamore 
leaves, all from Chirk. (Ecidium ficaria, from Hunnington and King’s 
Norton ; Uromyces Jicance, from King’s Norton ; Entyloma Jicarice, from 
Northfield, all on Ranunculus jicaria ; Uredo conjlxiens from Halesowen, 
on Mercurialis perennis; Puccinia anemones , from Northfield, on 
Anemone nemorosu; Colpoma quercinum, on young oak twigs, from 
