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temperature is 1879, when the mean fell to 47° '5, three degrees 

 below the average, and following the severest winter in the 

 series— that of 1878-79. 



Fourteen oat of the twenty years had a mean temperature of 

 50° or upwards ; the remaining six had a mean below 50°. 



With regard to the seasons, next to be considereii, the following 

 table shows the mean temperature of each season, as deduced 

 from twenty years' observations, together with the highest and 

 lowest means observed in each season — also the ransre : — 



The warmest spring, and the hotest summer, in the series 

 occurred both in the same year, 1868, which year had also the 

 highest mean temperature of all the years. Of the summer of this 

 year (1868) I gave a detailed account to the Field Club shortly 

 afterwards,* and I need say nothing further about it here. No 

 such hot summer has occurred since in Bath. The nearest 

 approach to it was the summer of 1876 ; but the spring preceding 

 that summer was neai-ly 4° lower than the spring of 1868. 



Looking to the summers generally it appears that the mean 

 temperature of that season was above 60° in sixteen out of the 

 twenty years, the four exceptions being 1879, and the three 

 consecutive summers of 1881, 1882 and 1883. In 1879 the mean 

 temperature of the summer was scarcely above 58° ; it was a 

 notoriously wet and cold year throughout, of which also I gave a 

 full account to the Field Club in a paper published in their 

 Proceedings.f 



* Proceedings of Bath Field Club, vol. i., No. 3, p. 43. 

 t Id. vol. iv., No. 3, p. 209. 



