NOTES.-Fourth Mo. 8. The wind was for some time at SW : rain in the night. 9. Cloudy, a. m.: a shower of driven granular snow in the night. 10. Cumulostrati and Nimbi, giving small quantities of snow. 11. Cumulostratus: windy. 12. Mostly overcast: very light rain at intervals. 13. Small rain, a. m. : fair, p. m. 14. A little light rain. 15. Fair: large plumose Cirri above Cumuli. 16. a. m. A strong gale from NW and N, with a shower and hail: rainbow: fair day after. 17. Cumulostratus: dark sky: windy. 18. Cumulostratus: the wind veers to NE and NW: calmer day. 19. The hygrometer noted at ten: : Cumulostrati prevailed, surmounted by the lighter modifications: windy the part of the moon's disc in shade distinctly visible, and the light crescent very conspicuous in the evening: a small meteor passed to the NE. 20. a. m. Windy, not steady to NE: Cumulostrati. 21. a. m. Cirri pointing westward, with Cumuli beneath: afterwards an arrangement of this cloud in regular parallel streamers from NW to SE,, which became red at sun-set. 22. With the SE wind this morning the swallows appeared, but few in number, and flying feebly: a serene evening, after Cumulus and Cumulostratus. 23. Hoar frost early: cloudy: windy: a shower from NE, p.m.: clear evening: the hygrometer to-day receded to 32°, and the superior part of the clouds, after the rain, presented a configuration like the pores of sponge, which I have not observed before for some years. 24. Cumulostratus: windy: a shower at night. 25. a. m. Overcast: windy: Cumulostratus. 26. The same, the breeze growing stronger. 27, 28. Chiefly overcast with Cumulostratus and large Cirrocumulus. 29. The same, with Cirrostratus: a slight shower by night. 30. A moderate gale at NE, with showers and much cloud: Nimbi: a little hail. Fifth Mo. 1. Cloudy windy. 3. A slight shower in the night. 5. The hygrometer receded to 32°. 6. The wind went from N to E. 7. Wind SE: a breeze: very clear all day, and a full orange twilight: by six, a. m. the 8th, it was however SW, with a slight shower. RESULTS. Winds almost uniformly northerly, and moderate in force. Barometer: Greatest height. Least .... Thermometer: Greatest height Least .... Mean of the period Mean of the hygrometer Rain... 30.37 in. 29.67 in. ... 30.028 in. 64° 25° 43.85° 49° 0.28 in. Vegetation has been peculiarly slow during this period. On the 19th of Third Month last I had an opportunity of observing that rare phenomenon the Anthelion. It was formed on the perpendicular part of a lofty dense Cumulostratus, which happened to present in the NE at near five, p.m. a surface directly opposed to the sun, reflecting an image of the disk, at the same apparent height from the horizon. In a few minutes, and almost as soon as I had satisfied myself of the fact, it was obliterated by a new protuberance in the cloud destroying the direct reflection. An Anthelion observed by Swinton near Oxford in 1762 is described, with a figure, in Vol. XI. of the Phil. Trans. Abridged, p. 532, to which the reader is referred; but in the present instance, the whole cloud being bright, the contrast between the general surface and the sun's image was probably less striking than in Swinton's observation. a.m. NOTES.-Fifth Mo. 8. Cirrocumulus, mixed with Nimbi, a. m. after which, the cloudiness becoming general, a thunder-storm ensued, soon after four, p.m.: it came from the SW, with the wind at SE. 9. Cold wind, a. m. with a general cloudiness. 10. Overcast, a. m. with Cumulostratus: a few drops of rain. 11. Cumulus, Cumulostratus, and Nimbus: the wind NW and SW: rain with wind at night from the southward. 12. a. m. A westerly gale. 13. Showery, with hail twice. 14. Showery: hail, pretty large, at noon from the southward. 15, 16. Fair. 17. A shower, p.m.-Travelling in the interval from the 13th to the 17th inclusive as far as Leeds, in Yorkshire, and home again, I found cloudiness from large Cumuli, &c. general, but met with very little rain. On the 15th, passing between Leeds and Pontefract, there was a fine display of Nimbi, one of which let fall a heavy shower on the latter place and its environs. On the 17th, after a deep orange tint in the morning twilight, the sun rose red behind a Cirrostratus; in emerging from which the brilliant part of the disc was divided by a well defined line from the lower and coloured portion. 18. Cloudy, a. m.: gentle rain, p.m. 19. Windy, cloudy, a. m. wet, p. m. 20, 21. Rainy. 22. Cloudy. 23. 24. Some showers: a Stratus at nine, p. m. the latter day. 25. Thunder at a distance: showers, a. m. 27. A thick fog at night, undoubtedly from a Stratus. RESULTS. Winds variable, but for the most part westerly. Barometer: Greatest height Least .... Mean of the period Thermometer: Greatest height Least ... Mean of the period Mean of the hygrometer. Rain.... 29.99 in. 29.16 in. 29.533 in. 72° 33° 50-70° 54° 3.18 in. I had anticipated a third dry period, similar to the two we had experienced, and expected that the rains would return after the summer solstice: in this I have been happily mistaken. In the beginning of the present period the weather took a new type with us, the westerly current coming in again, with some discharges of electricity, bringing rain, which gradually became more plentiful, and proved exceedingly seasonable. Vegetation has passed, in consequence, from a starved and backward state, to one of considerable luxuriance and promise. It is observable that the barometer during this period has scarcely passed the boundary of 30 inches in elevation, and has certainly not descended below 29 inches. The mean temperature, though 6° higher than that of the period immediately preceding, is low for the season. GREAT RAIN AT STUTGARD. Paris, June 5.-Letters from Stutgard, dated May 28th inform us, that on the 26th the rain began to fall in torrents, and did not cease for three days and three nights; all the rivers were overflowed, and it produced an inundation far surpassing any thing ever recollected in that country. The lower part of the small town of Constatt, a league from Stutgard, was under water, and the suburbs were evacuated by the inhabitants. Several individuals and many animals were drowned at Constatt: on the evening of the 28th the rain ceased.-Pub. Ledger. Note. It is observable that this unusual fall of rain in a part of Germany 450 miles SE of the Thames, began at the precise time when after nine days of wet weather it became fair with us; and that during its continuance, with a sufficiently low state of the Barometer, we were without rain. NOTES.-Sixth Mo. 7. Much Cirrocumulus, a. m. in beds at a considerable elevation: in the evening a group of thunder clouds in the S and SE, which passed, after a single peal of thunder, to the eastward. 8. Windy: light showers, a. m. : heavier rain, p. m. 9. Stormy wet day and night. 10. Showers: Cumulostratus at sun-set. 11. Fine morning. 13. Wet, blowing day: stormy night. 14. Much wind and cloud, a. m.: slight shower: evening more settled. 15. Windy at NW, a. m.: Cumulus, with Cirrostratus: Cumulostratus: fair: Stratus at night. 16. Fine: Cirrus at evening. 17. A Stratus visi |