EXPLANATION OF THE CALENDAR PAGES. The first columns of the left page show the day of the month, week, and year-the figures in the latter column indicating the number of days from the beginning and to the end respectively. The column headed "Notes" shows the Sundays, Church festivals and Holy days, and Astronomical and other notes. (The Saints' days printed in italics are not kept by the Church of England.) The thick rule on left of this column indicates the duration of the various Law Sittings. The columns headed "Moon" show-1st. The moon's age (that is the nearest number of days, without fractions, that have elapsed since the preceding New Moon. (This is sometimes useful in estimating roughly the time of High Water in localities where the usual tide-tables are not available.) 2nd. Duration of Moonlight from 6 to 9 and 9 to 12 p.m., and 12 to 3 and 3 to 6 a.m. (It will of course not be lost sight of that at certain periods of the year the rising or setting of the Moon must occur in daylight. As the object of the column is solely to show the hours when there is Moonlight, no notice is taken of the fact that there may also be Daylight.) 3rd, 4th, and 5th The hour of rising (Greenwich mean time) when the Moon is due south and has attained her greatest altitude (astronomically when the Moon Transits or passes the meridian), and the hour of Setting. In these columns where a waved rule line occurs it indicates a period post meridiem, whilst a dotted rule line indicates ante meridiem. The columns headed "Sun" show-1st. The Rising and Setting of the Sun (Greenwich time.) 2nd Equation of Time (or the period which is needed to adjust civil to astronomical time). 3rd. The Sun's declination, as to which see next column. To set a Clock or Watch on any Day by means of the second column, note the number of Minutes and Seconds which stand against that day, and make your Clock or Watch so much faster or slower (according as the table is marked fast or slow) than the time on a good Sun Dial. Thus, on January 1st, the Clock must be set 3m. 34s. faster or before the Dial; on the 1st of October it must be set Iom. IIS. slower. It is best to correct the Watch when the Dial marks the exact hour, and not at Noon, nor near Sunrise or Sunset. Railway and public clocks are set to Greenwich mean time, which, except in the Table of Occultations, is the time used throughout this Almanac. In THE SUN'S DECLINATION.--This is useful in determining the latitude of a place from an observed meridian-altitude of the sun; or for finding the apparent time from an observed altitude of the sun where the latitude is known. these operations the sun's semidiameter stated under astronomical notes is needed in order to deduce the altitude of the sun's centre from the observed altitude of the lower limb. On the right page is given the time of High Water, morning and afternoon, at London Bridge and other ports, and the time of ecliptic conjunction with the Moon of principal planets. The dates of very High Tides are accurately shown as a useful warning for localities adjacent to the river, and are indicated by an asterisk in the table of heights of High Water on pages 156, 157. Precaution is, however, urgent only when atmospheric disturbances are prevalent, more especially high north winds and a low state of the barometer with continued rain. A very high spring tide is unusually sensitive, and is much affected by these disturbing influences. In the pages devoted to WEATHER CHANGES the Records of Barometer, Temperature and Rainfall are for the 50 years from 1841 to 1890. Those for Sunshine for the 15 years from 1880 to 1894. In Janiveer, if sun appear, March and April pay full dear. NOTES. 20d. 1th. p.m. SUN ENTERS AQUARIUS M'n-Rises Souths Sets Rises Sets S 1 W 1 Circumcision. Last Qr. morn. 5.34; 11.11:8. 8 3.59 3.25 23 4 2 Th 2 14.8 p.m. 22 1. Holiday on the Stock Exchange. Bank Holiday in Scotland. Lists of voters come into force as the registers for the new year. Licences renewable for dogs, carriages, male servants, and armorial bearings. Land and Income Tax due. 6. Dividends on Consols, &c., due. 6 4.56 10. 37.45 4.42 13.23 17 50 0.44 5.41 10.30 7.44 4.44 13.33 17 33 morn. NOTES. 7. Medical Officers to send quarterly lists of pauper lunatics to Clerk to the Guardians on or before this date. 14. Last day for giving notice of appeal against Metropolitan Valuation Lists. 21. Savings Banks to send annual statements to Commissioners by this date. *A waved rule on right indicates P.M.; dotted rule, A.M. Day. 0 10 20 RISING, SOUTHING, AND SETTING OF THE PRINCIPAL PLANETS. Souths. Sets. Souths. Sets. Below are times of High Water morn and afternoon at four principal Ports. To find times at other places see Index. LONDON BDGE LIVERPOOL. DAY. DUBLIN. LEITH. WIND. RAIN. |