The latter observations were made at Tottenham-green, four miles N. of London, which situation, as the country to the N. W. especially is somewhat hilly and more wooded, Mr. Howard considers more sheltered than the former site; the elevation of the ground is a trifle greater, and the thermometer was about ten feet from the general level of the garden before it, with a very good exposure N., but not quite enough detached from the house, having been affixed to the outer door-case, in a frame which gave it a little projection, and admitted the air behind it. On this day, then, the average of these twenty years’ observations gives Mean Temperature 36·57. * * * * * It is, further, proposed to notice certain astronomical and meteorological phenomena; the migration and singing of birds; the appearance of insects; the leafing and flowering of plants; and other particulars peculiar to animal, vegetable, and celestial existences. These observations will only be given from sources thoroughly authentic, and the authorities will be subjoined. _Communications_ for this department will be gladly received. [6] Mirror of the Months. [7] Vita Edw. II. [8] In Architren. lib. 2. [9] The name of some horse. [10] The name of another horse. [11] The name of a cow. [12] The author of Waverly, in a note to the _Abbot_, mentions three Moralities played during the time of the reformation--_The Abbot of Unreason_, _The Boy Bishop_, and the _Pepe o’ Fools_--may not _pack o’ fools_ be a corruption of this last? [13] Blount’s Plug. Antiq. by Beckwith. ~January 2.~ _St. Concord._ Is said, by his English biographer Butler, to have been a sub-deacon in a desert, martyred at Spoletto, about the year 178; whereto the same biographer adds, “In the Roman Martyrology his name occurs on the _first_, in some others on the _second_ of January.” The infallible _Roman church_, to end the discord, rejects the authority of the “_Roman Martyrology_” and keeps the festival of Concord on the second of January. NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR. Mean Temperature 35·92. ~January 3.~ THE RIDDLE OF THE YEAR, _By Cleobulus_. There is a father with twice six sons; these sons have thirty daughters a-piece, party-coloured, having one cheek white and the other black, who never see each other’s face, nor live above twenty-four hours. * * * * * Cleobulus, to whom this riddle is attributed, was one of the seven wise men of Greece, who lived about 570 years before the birth of Christ. Riddles are of the highest antiquity; the oldest on record is in the book of Judges xiv. 14-18. We are told by Plutarch, that the girls of his times worked at netting or sewing, and the most ingenious “made riddles.” NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR. Mean Temperature 35·60. ~January 4.~ _Prepare for Twelfth-day._