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with December 1, 1894, and ending with November 30, 1895, 
been at all of an usual character, I should not have ventured to. 
have returned to my subject of the two previous years, but there 
has been so much that is not usual, and the effects have been so 
very remarkable, that I agreed with your Secretary and others, 
who thought that there should appear in our Proceedings some 
record of such a season ; and in a sketchy way I will now make 
the record. 
That it was a season marked by very unusual weather is well 
known to you all ; it wasa season in which the weather went into 
extremes, and it seemed almost to bear out the statement that 
was made a few years ago by a great meteorologist that the 
tendencies of our seasons for some, perhaps for many, years to 
come, would be that the weather would be in extremes; extreme 
heat and cold, and extreme drought and wet. 
What the actual weather was is best shown by a short account 
of the rainfall, the heat, and the cold, during each of the twelve 
months that have passed. December, 1894, was a mild month, 
with seven days of slight frost never lower than 28° and reaching 
as high as 55, and with nearly 34 inches of rain (3°35) ; but in 
the morning of the New Year a period of severe cold set in, 
which lasted with slight intermissions for three months. In 
January there were 18 days of frost, and on the 26th the 
thermometer fell to 18°. There were some bright intervals, so 
that on the 20th the thermometer reached 53 and there were over 
three inches of rain (3:16), but the character of the month 
generally was a low thermometer throughout. But in this 
respect it was far surpassed by February, which was not only the 
coldest month of the year, but the coldest February that had been 
recorded for many years. There were 27 days of frost, and for 
the most part very hard frost, the thermometer on the 8th falling 
to 10°, and only rising as high as 45° on the last day of the 
month. The wind was in the North all the month, and there 
was very little rain. It was a month to be remembered for its 
