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the 25th October and the 14th November, as well as in February 

 and December, the birometer fell considerably below 29 in., and 

 on these occasions the weather, as is usual in such circumstances, 

 was stormy and wet. The mean pressure for the year (i-educed 

 to 32 deg. and sea level) was 29'895 in., which is a little below 

 the average of the last eight years — viz., 29-923 in. There was 

 only one month in which the mean pressure exeeeded 30 in., viz., 

 September, with a record of 30-234 in; and it will be remembered 

 how remai-kable that month was for dryness and almost unbroken 

 fine weather. 



2'emperature (in shade, four feet above the grass). — On the 

 30th of June the self-registering thermometer reached its highest 

 point for the year, viz., 85 deg., illustrating what has been often 

 observed before, that the highest single day temperatures 

 frequently occur near the time of the summer solstice. The 

 lowest was recorded on the 7th January, when it fell to 7 deg. in 

 the screen and to 1 deg. on the grass, giving an annual i-ange of 

 78 deg. There were three nights of very severe frost at the period 

 mentioned, from the 6th to the 8th January, when the minimum 

 readings ranged from 7 to 13 deg., with the result of numerous 

 ruptures of water-pipes and the freezing over of the river Nith. 

 The mean annual temperature was 48 deg., which is about half a 

 degree above the average of the last eight years. The annual 

 means during these years have ranged from 46 deg. in 1892 to 

 49-4 deg. in 1893, and on only two of these years, 1889 and 1893) 

 has the annual temperature exceeded that of 1894, and in 1889 

 only by one-tenth of a degree. The warmest month of the year 

 was July, with a mean of 60-4 deg. ; and the coldest January, 

 with a mean of 37-2 deg. There were six months in which the 

 mean temperature exceeded the average of the last eight yearsi 

 viz., February, March, April, October, November, and December ; 

 the excesses ranging from 0-4 deg. in October to 3-6 deg. in 

 March and April. In November and December the excesses 

 were about 2 deg. In the other months there was a deficiency} 

 which was greatest in May, June, and August ; but while the 

 aggregate excesses amounted to 15 deg., the aggregate deticiences 

 amounted only to 9 deg. There was a fair proportion of warm 

 days, with a maximum temperature ranging from 70 deg. to 85 

 deg. There were twenty-one in all, six of which occurred in the 

 latter part of June, ten in July, only one in August, and four in 

 September. This strikingly contrasts with the previous year, 



