Average 
Jan. | Feb. | Mar. | ear) eel | June} J (ae Aug. [Sep ene 
deg. | deg. | deg. Fees deg. | | deg. fe. deg. “dep. oe deg. | deg. 
1891-1900 | 37°8 | 38-4 | 41°8 | 47-3 | 53° 3 | 59°8 | 62°5 | 61°9 | 57°8 | 49°5 | 44-5 | 39:0 | 49: 7 
1903 
vi Proceedings. 
Mean TEMPERATURE. 
40°8 | 44-7 | 46°3 | 44:0 536 55°7 | 61-1 
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Oct. Ie Dec. | Year 
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Average | hrs. Manel | hrs. | hrs. | hrs. lane | hrs. 
1886-1900. | 42°2 | 62-1 | 115-0) 159-9] 200-6| 206-0) 210-1 
1903. 
SunuLiGcuHt. 
Jan. | Feb. ‘Mar. | Apr. May. | June ‘Taly | Aug. Sept.| Oct. | Nov. Dec. Year 
hrs. | hrs. | hrs. | hrs. hrs. 
These tables well deserve careful study, and they show (1) 
that the months of January, February, March, and October were 
exceedingly warm, the excess of temperature being respectively 
3°°0, 6°83, 4°°5, and 8°°3; (2) that the months of April, June, 
July, and August were cold, the deficiency being respectively 
3°°3, 4°1, 1°4, and 2°°3; (8) the other four months differed but 
slightly from the average; and (4) that the year was slightly 
above the average by 0°-4. With respect to the sunlight table 
we have a somewhat different distribution, viz. (1) the months of 
January, February, March, and September were sunny, the 
excess in hours being respectively 12:1, 30°0, 50°2, and 23:1; 
(2) that the deficiency in hours in April, May, June, July, 
November, and December was somewhat large, namely, respec- 
tively in hours, 6°7, 11:1, 31:9, 16-0, 9:1 and 10°6; (3) that the 
remaining two months differed but slightly from the average ; 
and (4) and that the year was above the average by 30°6 hours, 
practically three days. It will be noticed from these tables how 
closely the mean temperature and sunlight correspond, but the 
tables do not show the disastrous consequences of the, shall I 
say it, celebrated frost in April, which practically destroyed all 
our fruiting season. 
I will now deal shortly with the rainfall of the district. In 
the ‘Times’ of Monday, Jan. 11th, 1904, there appears a letter 
from Dr. Mill, who has most courageously put on the mantle of 
our late honorary member Mr. G. J. Symons, giving a short 
account of the rainfall of 1903, in which he practically sums up 
the results of 1903 as follows: ‘‘ that in England, 1872 must be 
taken as the first and worst, 1852 second, and 1903 third.’’ This 
hrs. | 
198°3| 160-2} 100- 4| 51:3 | 38°9 |1545°6 
| 
54°3 | 92°1 | 165°2 153°2 189-5) 174:1 194-1 201°8| 183:3 975, 42°2| 28:3 |1575%6 
