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Observations were also taken in connection from 9 till 11 a.m. inclusive, 
at the Peat Moss, two miles from Fort William and about fifty feet above 
the sea. The elements of observation of the entire system consisted of 
pressure by mercurial and aneroid barometers, temperature of air, earth, 
lochs and wells, moisture ; direction, force and velocity of wind; kind and 
amount of cloud, movements and apparent elevation of the various 
strata of cloud, hydrometeors, ozone, &c. I must mention, as special 
features in the w’ork of the past season, simultaneous observations on 
the actinism of light, by entirely new apparatus kindly supplied by 
Dr. Angus Smith, F.P.S., the eminent chemist of Manchester; and 
observations of the rain-band, by Browning’s spectroscope—a most 
valuable adjunct to my instrumental equipment. The very heavy 
work of “entering up” from the rough observation books is now pro¬ 
gressing, and the work will in due course be discussed by the Scottish 
Meteorological Society. I am keeping up observations at Fort William. 
—Clemp:nt L. Wragge. 
Phragmidium on Bramble.— The two species of Phragmidium 
which occur on the bramble have long been confounded in England. 
They are both put down as Fli. bulbosum. More than eighty years ago, 
however, Persoou distinguished one of the forms as Puccinia viucronata 
var. Bubi (Dispos., p. 38); in Grevillea, iii., p. 171, M. C. Cooke adopts 
the name Phragmidium mucronatum, var. Bubi, but says nothing about 
Persoon. He adds :—“ On living leaves of Bubm cceshm,'" but it is not 
confined to that species, being in fact, I believe, commoner than the 
form which has been usually meant by bulbosum, but which now, in 
order to avoid mistake, it will be better to call Ph. violaceum, retaining 
the name Ph. Bubi for the former species. The following are their 
diagnoses:— 
Ph. Bubi (Pers.) : Spots small, brownish, with a reddish edge. 
Sori small, crowded, often covering nearly the whole leaf. 
Spores mostly with five or six cells, and having a long, pale, 
conical papilla at the apex. On Bubus ccesius and B. fruticosus. 
Ph. violaceum (Schultz): Spots large, thickened, purple, at least at 
the edge. Sori large, usually Spores mostly four-celled, 
with a short, conical, or hemispherical papilla. On Bubus 
fruticosus. —W. B. Grove, B.A. 
Midland Union—Annual Meeting atTamworth in 1883.—The Com¬ 
mittee of the Tam worth Natural History, Geological, and Antiquarian 
Society have fixed on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 12th and 13th, as 
the days for the annual meeting of the Midland Union of Scientific 
Societies in 1883. Mr. Egbert de Hamel has been chosen as President 
of the Tamworth Society for the coming year, and therefore becomes 
de facto President of the Union. Mr. de Hamel has ably served the 
Union as treasurer from the time of its formation, and we are con¬ 
vinced that he will no less worthily fulfil the duties of the high and 
important office to which he now succeeds. 
Dorset County Museum and Library.— The new buildings which 
have been erected at Dorchester, at a cost of £0,620, to receive the 
antiquities, local collections, books, Ac., in which the county of Dorset 
is so 1 ‘ich, will be ready for opening early in the new year. 
