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 lit €Ma\x College for tijc fccir 1893. 



(230 Feet above Mean Sea Level.) 



By D. RINTOUL, M.A. 



1.— TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURE. 



Jaxuary. — The mean temperature was 35*98°, as against 

 39T5°, the average of the previous ten years; the month 

 being thus much colder than usual. The first fortnight was 

 extremely cold, the mean temperature being below the 

 normal for the first 18 days, and even the maximum tem- 

 perature was below the usual mean temperature for the first 

 15 days. The lowest temperature on the ground was 13° on 

 the 3rd, and in the screen 17*70° on the 5th. There was 

 frost on the ground on 24 days out of the 31. 



February. — The mean temperature of the month was 166° 

 higher than usual, being 42'04°, against the normal value of 

 40'38°. The temperature was higher than usual for the first 

 three weeks, except on the 5th, 6t-h, and 12th; but the last 

 week was much colder than usual. The highest tempera- 

 ture reached was 563° on the 19th and 20th, and tlie lowest 

 on the ground 25° on the 25th. There was frost on the 

 ground on 10 days. 



March. — The mean temperature was 47T6°, compared 

 with the average value of 41 '65°, thus showing an excess of 



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