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METEOROLOGICAL NOTES. 
METEOROLOGICAL NOTES.— July, 1884. 
The barometer was generally unsteady throughout the month ; 
falling gradually from 30T79 inches on the 2nd, to 29'634 inches on 
the 10th. Thence it fluctuated considerably, rising to 30T94 inches 
at the end of the month; the weather was, consequently, very 
unsettled. Temperature was high on some of the earlier days, the 
following maxima being recorded :—85°-7 at Loughborough, 84°-4 at 
Hodsock, 82 Q, 0 at Henley-in-Arden, and 80°‘G at Coston Rectory. On 
the 4th the heat of the rays of the sun (black bulb in vacuo) reached 
136 0, 3 at Hodsock and 136 o- 0 at Loughborough ; on some of the fol¬ 
lowing days the maxima were low. The night temperatures were 
uniformly rather high, the lowest registered being 40 o, 0 at Coston 
Rectory, 40 o, 7 at Hodsock, 41°-0 at Henley-in-Arden, and 45°‘0 at 
Loughborough. July was decidedly a wet month, and the rainfall 
was in excess of the average. The total values were :—Coston Rectory, 
4‘92 inches; Hodsock, 4*20 inches; Henley-in-Arden, 3-22 inches; 
Loughborough, 2-94 inches. The number of “rainy days” varied 
from 19 to 22. Mr. Mellish, of Hodsock Priory, near Worksop, writes: 
—“ This (2-04 inches, on the 9th) is the heaviest fall yet recorded 
here in 24 hours ; of the total, L34 inches fell in 1 hour 20 mins., 
and as there were several ‘ lulls,’ the greater part fell in a much 
shorter time.” Sunshine was deficient. The wind was chiefly from 
the south-westward, and varied much in force. Severe thunderstorms 
visited the Midland Counties at the commencement of the month, 
and caused loss of life and much damage to live stock and property. 
Wm. Berridge, F.R.Met.Soc. 
12, Victoria Street, Loughborough, 20th August, 1884. 
A Correction.— The specimens of the Chain Brand, Xenodochus 
carbonarius, mentioned in the last report of the Birmingham 
Microscopists’ and Naturalists’ Union as occurring on Poterium 
Sanguisorba , were on Sanguisorba officinalis. 
Alternaria Brassic,e, Saccardo.—This curious little fungus has just 
occurred to me on the half-dead leaves of Cytisus Laburnum , which 
were killed by what I take to be Pliyllosticta cytisella, Sacc. On the 
arid spots produced by this latter fungus, a lens revealed a number of 
minute forms, of which the following is a description :—Hypliae very 
short, scattered or gregarious, erect, pale brown, 25 - 30//. x 5/x. Spores 
apical, erect, single or shortly concatenate, lageniform, i.e., ovate with 
a prolonged beak, clear olive brown, multiseptate and muriform, some- 
