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With respect to the range of mean temperature in the several 

 seasons, it is worth noticing that while the ranges of Spring and 

 Summer are identically the same, the Autumn range, or 

 diiFerence between the highest and lowest mean temperatures, 

 amounts to nearly i°, — while in the winter season this difference 

 is greatly augmented, being nearly double that of any of the 

 others. Whether this is the case in other places I know not, but 

 it shows the great uncertainty of character that attaches to the 

 Winter season in Bath, and the matter seems to call for closer 

 investigation. For which purpose I annex a Table showing the 

 mean Winter temperature of each of the twenty years to which 

 this paper relates — 



Analysing the results of the above Table, it will be found 

 that the coldest winter in the whole series of years was that of 

 1878-9, when the mean temperature fell to 36"4; the next cold- 

 est being the winter following, that of 1879-80, scarcely more 

 than one degree higher than its predecessor, being 37" '5. The 

 two coldest winters, therefore, in the whole series were two 

 consecutive winters. 



The mildest winter in the series was that of 1868-9, following 

 the very hot summer of 1868, the mean temperature of that 

 winter being as high as 46'^'3, or ten degrees higher than that of 



