COUNCIL LOR 1872 . 
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The valley clip of these strata ought to have warned the 
owners in time. If the hnilders and road-constructors had 
possessed any knowledge of Greology, the catastrophe might 
have been prevented altogether. 
Meteorological Eeport for 1872.—The mean temperature 
of the year was 1*2 above a mean of 40 years, as will be seen 
by the annexed Table. The first four months were all plus of 
the mean temperature, as were also July and September; May 
and October, each two degrees below a mean. In the last ten 
days of March the thermometer was seven times at or below 
the freezing point. The extraordinary temperature of the first 
and second decades of the month more than counterbalance this 
deficiency. September was also a month of extremes; the first 
and second decades were nearly 6 degrees above a mean, the 
third, six degrees below. The twenty-second of the month 
witnessed a heavy fall of snow, reported as far South as 
Leicester, the mean temperature of the day was ten degrees 
below a mean of fifty years. 
METEOEOLOaiCAL EEGISTEE, YOEK, 1872. 
BAROMETER. 
RAIN. 
THERMOMETER. 
1 
Highest. 
Lowest. 
Mean. 
Inches. 
Days. 
Rain Mean 
of 40 Years. 
Mean Temp. 
1 
Ditto 40 
AYars. 
Highest. 
Lowest. 
Jan. 
30-00 
28-20 
29-37 
2-90 
17 
1-700 
38-5 
36-3 
52 
27 
Feb. 
30-12 
29-37 
29-61 
2-34 
20 
1*470 
41-7 
37*8 
51 
33 
Mar. 
30-26 
29-37 
29*49 
2-28 
20 
1-593 
43-8 
40-3 
58 
27 
April 
30-49 
29-20 
29-77 
2-86 
16 
1-504 
47*2 
45-7 
65 
33 
May 
30*44 
29-20 
29-77 
1*02 
9 
1-689 
50-2 
52-2 
67 
32 
June 
30-27 
29-30 
29-74 
5-42 
18 
2*342 
58-1 
58-1 
79 
39 
July 
30-21 
29-70 
29-90 
4-72 
13 
2-429 
63-8 
58-6 
81 
48 
Aug. 
30-31 
29-51 
29-86 
2-64 
16 
2*713 
59-6 
59-3 
76 
46 
Sept. 
30-25 
29-27 
29-68 
3-69 
22 
2-212 
53-8 
54-6 
72 
37 
Oct. 
30-30 
29-17 
29-52 
4-01 
23 
2-424 
46-6 
48-1 
60 
32 
Nov. 
30-17 
28-90 
29*57 
4-28 
23 
2-073 
42-6 
41-6 
61 
28 
Dec. 
29-85 
28-50 
29-36 
3-69 
19 
1-836 
38-7 
38-7 
48 
26 
30*49 
28-20 
29-64 
39-85 
216 
23-985 
48-7 
47-6 
81 
26 
