114 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



With reference to the temperature, there was a greater uniformity 

 in the monthly averages, and the mean (47°) is two degrees higher 

 than that of 1895, when greater extremes of temperature were 

 experienced. The warmest month of the year was June, but its 

 average temperature (57°) was two^degrees lower than that of 

 August, 1895, which was the warmest and wettest month of that 

 year. The highest reading of the thermometer in shade was 78° 

 on the 16th June, which was also the highest reading for the 

 previous year and occurring in the corresponding month. The 

 same thermometer was at or above 70° on three occasions in May, 

 eight in June, five in July, or sixteen times in all, against twenty- 

 three times in 1895. A similar absence of extremes is found on 

 comparing the register of the minimum thermometer in shade, 

 which was at or below freezing point on seventy-three days, 

 as against a hundred and four times in 1895. The greatest 

 amount of frost registered on one day was 14°, this occurring 

 twice, viz., on the 23rd January and the 20th December, a marked 

 contrast to the lowest readings of the previous year, when on the 

 10th February 34° frost, or 2° below zero, were registered. The 

 coldest month was December, when a total of 95° of frost was 

 recorded on fourteen mornings. January was the coldest month 

 of 1895, when, on twenty-nine days, the amount of frost was 

 373°. During the year the total amount of frost was 331°, 

 occurring on sixty -three days. In 1895 the amount was 823° in 

 ninety-nine days. 



The following table, like that of the rainfall, shows several 

 interesting features of comparison : — 



