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METEOROLOGICAL NOTES.— June, 1885. 
Atmospheric pressure was unsteady, but not generally low, the 
mean being 30-050 inches. The highest reading was on the 11th, 
30- 402 inches; the lowest on the 20tli, 29-449 inches. The mean 
temperature, 58-5°, was slightly below the average. There were some 
warm days at the beginning and middle of the month. The highest 
maxima occurred on the 4tli, when 83-8° was registered at Lough¬ 
borough, 82-5° at Strelley, 81-3° at Coston Rectory, 80-9° at Hodsock, 
and 805° at Henley-in-Arden. In the rays of the sun, 134-2° at 
Loughborough on the 4tli, 132-1° at Strelley on the 28th, and 129-3° at 
Hodsock on the loth. The lowest minima were 33-5° at Hodsock on 
the 27tli, 34-0° at Coston Rectory, and 37 - 4° at Loughborough on the 
11th, 38-0° at Henley-in-Arden on the 11th and 27tli, and 38-5° at 
Strelley on the 27th. On the grass, 29-2° at Hodsock on the 10th, 
31- 4° at Strelley on the 27tli, and 34-2° at Loughborough on the lltli. 
The rainfall was above the average, but varied considerably over 
different districts. At Hodsock the total value was 3-65 inches, at 
Loughborough and Strelley 3-00 inches, at Henley-in-Arden 2-72 
inches, and at Coston Rectory 1-85 inches. The latter station is about 
twenty miles east from Loughborough, and the difference in the 
amounts is rather remarkable. The heaviest falls were on the 6th, 
7th, and 8th, which contributed above 2 inches of the total. The 
entire absence of thunder storms is a feature of the month. Sunshine 
was above the average. Solar halos were observed at Loughborough 
on the 10tli and 11th. 
Wm. Berridge, F. R. Met. Soc. 
12, Victoria Street, Loughborough. 
torn Itotc. 
An Interesting Section, which ought perhaps to be noted, is 
exposed in a road cutting, over which is carried the Charnwood Forest 
Railway, at Hugglescote, and near to Bardon Hill. This section—in 
obtaining which I had the kind assistance of Mr. E. F. Hates—is 
about 350 feet in length, and is as follows:—Northern drift, rising 
from 4 feet to 10 feet, containing large blocks of banded slate and 
volcanic ash, Ac., derived from rocks in the immediate vicinity, of 
various sizes, varying from 29 inches by 18 inches downwards. This 
rests on, in a conformable manner—so far as exposed, but is very 
probably Thicker—about 5 feet of conglomerate, containing well- 
rounded and subangular pebbles of banded slate, volcanic ash, 
quartz and quartzite, millstone grit, carboniferous limestone, fibrous 
gypsum, chalk and flint, hasmatite ironstone nodules, worn speci¬ 
mens of Grypliea arcnata, and small pockets of soft sand. The 
matrix is a carbonate of lime, which is soon decomposed by weather¬ 
ing, leaving the pebbles rather loose on the surface. This conglomerate 
is very probably the representative of the gravels of glacial age 
(Eastern Drift) exposed in other parts of the county, and has been 
cemented together by the decomposition of the chalk and limestone 
pebbles it once contained.—H. E. Quilter, Leicester. 
