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falling off. . With respect to the trees and shrubs,’ this is literally a second spring § and it 
proves most satisfactorily, that notwithstanding the fears of many persons respecting the great 
swarms of cock-chafers, which insome seasons threaten destruction tothe verdure of our trees 
and hedges, these insects are in no other way really injurious, than by their grubs, which ine 
fest the corn. (ce and meadows, 
The song birds are now fur the most part silent. I have not for several days past heard 
the cuckoo; I presume therefore that it has commenced its migration. 
The ie rush or reed mace (typbha latifolia), purple- flowered money wort (anagallis tenel- 
la), great bindweed (conmvelvulus sepiujy), sca bindweed (convolvulus soldanelia), backwheat 
(polygonum fagopyr um), and yellow stonecrop (sedum reflexum), are Im flower. é 
Flying ants, of the species which I take to be formica ligniperda of Latreille, appear. 
July 16th Young partridges are secn, 
aly 20th. | Peas are cut. o 
Mushrooms begin to abound in the pastures. — 
July 28th. 1 ‘this evening saw, flying about, several individuals of the brown-tail Sotly 
(Dombyx phaeorr héus of Haworth), the caterpiliars of which, in the year 1782, caused so much 
alarm in the neignbourhood of Lendon, that the poor people were employed to cut off and col- 
lect their webs, at the rate of a shilling per bushel; and-at the first onset, ho fewer than 30 
bushels were collected in one day, in the parish of Giseham. _ These were burnt undet the 
inspection of the church-wardens. , The ferment caused by this alarm, was’ not allayed tik 
Mr. Curtis published his excellent ‘* History of the Brown-tail Moth,” which proved, vecy 
satisfactorily, that na other injury would be experienced than the trees losing, for a time, 
their verdure. 
Hampjbire. 
| Erratum in the laft rant s Report, for 6 whiwzing” read §* whirring. a 
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METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. 
Observations on the State of the Weather, from the 24th of July, to the Q4th 
of August, 1809, inclusive, Four Miles NIN.W. of St.” Paul's. 
Barometer. Thermometer. 
Highest, 29.64. several days. Higheft, 78°. Wind §. E. 
Lowest, 29.05. Aug.6. WindW. | Lowest, 52°. several days. 
5 On the 6th inst. On the 5th the ther- 
Greatest # 39 hun- the mercury wasas Greatest ) mommeter was not higher 
variation in “ dsedths of 7 low as 29.05, and | variation in Uae 5 than 58°. but on the 
24 hours, aninch. on the next day it | 24 hours. ba 6th it was G87. 
had risen to 29.44. ( 
The quantity of rain fallen this month, is equal to 8.5 inches in depth. 
We have had another cold and very wet month: rarely does it happen that so much rairt 
falls in August, as we have at this time to record: on twenty days out of the thirty-oney 
there has been rain, and on many of these it continued for several hours without intermissien. 
The low degree of temperature, is equally remarkable 5. once, as is seen above, the thermo- 
meter has been ashighas 78°, and on one other day, it has been gs high as 76°, and excepting 
these instances, the thermometer has never stood at summer heat. Notwithstanding the 
coldness of the jveather, there have been several thunder rie dag some of which, in different 
parts of the.country, have been attended with very fatal effects. 
The wind has blown chiefly ‘rom the westerly po-nts of the beens nor can we eidet any 
settled. dry weather, till the ‘wind settle in some cther ee 
ASTRONOMICAL ANTICIPATIONS FOR SEPTEMBER, 1809. 
Several remarkable celestial phenomena will occur this month. The new planet Hers- 
chel, or Georgium Sidus, will scarcely be seen at all, as he sets so soon aiter tne sun. On 
the evening of the 1st he will be in the horizon of {ondavds at 31 minutes past eight; on the 
Jith, at 57 minutes past sevens on the 21st,.at 23 minutes past seven; and on the 30th, at 
73 minutes past six. In the course of the present month, he wiil le: through 29 minutes 
of a degree by a direct motion. Saturn may be seen in the evenings towards the S.W jfer 
about two hours-after sun-set. On the afternoon of the 30th, he will enter the sign Sagitta- 
rius, being at that time only half a degree distant from the bright star in the $ Scorpion named 
B, of the second magnitude. Jupiter being i in the opposite part of the heavens to that in which 
Saturn and the Georgium Sidus are, will, consequently, be up almost the whole night. 
Late in the evenings he ‘will make a conspicueus figure in the eastern regions of the sky, and 
will be an interesting object for the telescope. His motion is retrograde with continued acce- 
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