114 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 
Withreference to thetemperature, 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 :— 

