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Of the three months constituting the spring quarter of 1836, it may be remarked that they were strongly characterised by the proverbial uncertainty and rapid change of our English climate; in fact, throughout Europe, all accounts agree in relating the wet, wintery, and boisterous weather of March and April. In the former month, with the exception of two or three days about the middle, there were constantly heavy gales, with rain, snow, and a low temperature and the latter was almost as wet and cold, but with less wind; several heavy snow and hail storms were experienced during the month, and it snowed heavily the whole of the day on the first. May, on the other hand, has been altogether a dry month, with a great majority of clear and cloudless days; but the wind throughout has hardly varied from North, N. E., and East-and, consequently, it has been very harsh, dry, and cold, together with a hot sun. The natural result has been, that the whole of the surface water has disappeared; and, notwithstanding the immense quantities of previous wet, vegetation is now suffering much from drought: the productions of the garden, with all kinds of spring crops, and the grass particularly. The nights have been constantly cold; and very frequently, in low situations, there have been sharp frosts. During several nights, both in April and May, strong auroral appearances have been witnessed: there was a considerable display on the evening of the 6th of the latter month, and also on the 19th. Sunday, May 15, the day on which the late great eclipse of the sun occurred, was a beautiful day, hardly a cloud made its appearance in the sky. The first contact took place about a quarter to two; at forty minutes past two Venus was distinctly visible to the naked eye, a few degrees south of the zenith. At the period of greatest obscuration there was a subdued and solemn tone of colouring thrown over the landscape, and the strong shadows cast by the little crescent of light, were curiously softened at their edges, giving to them an unusual character, which the most ordinary observer could not fail of remarking. At this time the atmosphere was perfectly calm, the sky of a deep-blue colour, and the tranquillity of the scene was broken only by the repeated crowing of the cock, and the lowing of some neighbouring cattle. The following is a table of the observed heights of the thermometer during this eclipse, which lasted two hours and forty-eight minutes : No. 1-A thermometer, with the bulb blackened and placed in the sun's rays in a little recess against a south wall; No. 2-a delicate little thermometer, N. E. aspect, in the shade. The hygrometer, at the beginning of the eclipse, was at 43o, and at the termination, 44°. Barometer, 29.905. Observers who witnessed the annular appearance of this eclipse, remark— "that the light of the sun, although sufficiently diminished to render both Venus and Jupiter visible, was far too powerful to allow any of the fixed stars to be seen." Jupiter, notwithstanding his situation was accurately known, was vainly searched for at Malvern. From the preceding account, great doubt must be entertained respecting the stories of eclipses, where the birds have retired to roost, and domestic animals have appeared terrified; for anything darker than the obscuration from an annular eclipse, must last so short a period, that by the time the birds had perched themselves upon their roost, the fastincreasing light would call them on the wing again: at all events, these occurrences would not happen except in eclipses central and total. INDEX. British Antiquities of Warwickshire, British Treelings (Silvia), An eluci- Church and Chancel of Stratford-on- Chemistry, Organic, 73 Combe's Constitution of Man, with F.L.S, 157, 335. Rev. E. Stan- 342. Fine Arts, 166, 344 Ichthyology, Sketches of British, 286 Literary Intelligence, 174, 347 Mammals of Britain, systematically Meteorological Report, 175, 348 Nightingale, On the Natural Histo- New Publications, List of, 174, 347 Proceedings of Provincial Societies: Birmingham Royal School of Me- Macclesfield Mechanic's Institu- Roman Antiquities discovered in Sketches of European Ornithology, Scientific Miscellanea, 171 Wigmore Castle, Herefordshire, His- ERRATA. Page 70, line 4, for fogorum, read fagorum. In part of the im- Paradoxa. END OF THE FOURTH VOLUME. BARLOW, PRINTER, BENNETT'S HILL, BIRMINGHAM. |