37 
February 
1849 . . . 
. . . 30*96 
F ebruary 
1852 .. . 
. . . 30 86 
March 
1852 .. . 
. . . 30*89 
March 
1854 .. . 
. .. 30 99 
November 
1857 . . . 
. . . 30*85 
October 
1859 .. . 
. . . 30-86 
July 
1863 .. . 
. . . 30*85 
March 
1867 .. . 
. . . 30*86 
J an u ary 
1882 .. . 
. . . 30*89 
February 
1887 .. . 
. . . 30*81 
January 9 th, 
1896 . . . 
. . . 31*02 
January 29th, 
1896 . . . 
. . . 31*86 
It will be noticed that all but one of these are in the winter 
months. 
Since in the 55 years, 1841 to 1895, there are only ten 
records above 30*8 inches, it is the more curious that we should 
have had another only three weeks after the high readings of 
the 9th, the barometer in S. Ireland rising to 30*95 inches. 
Headings of 31 inches and over are more frequent over 
Scandinavia, N. Russia and Siberia. Such was the case a year 
ago, when the great frost was at its severest over the British 
Isles. 
Our lowest reading at York was 27*777 inches on Dec. 8th, 
1896, when at Omagh, County Tyrone, the lowest known 
reading on the globe, 27*24, was recorded. This gives a range 
of 3*24 inches for York, and 3*86 for the country. If we 
remember that this is a difference of pressure of nearly 2 lbs. on 
every square inch, and recall that that means some 3,000 tons per 
acre, we may appreciate the gigantic forces at work, and yet, so 
quietly does Nature proceed, that, without instruments, no one 
could tell whether, at a given time, the barometer was abnormally 
high or abnormally low. 
J. EDMUND CLARK. 
