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Temperature.—As regards the temperature, the year has been 
somewhat peculiar. For example, the highest single reading of 
the thermometer was not in June, July, or August, as is usually 
the case, but on the 23d May, when it was 75:2 degs., the next 
highest being 74:5 degs. on the 7th August, and 74 degs., on the 
7th September. The proper summer months of June and July 
were unusually deficient in sunshine and warmth, with a remark- 
able prevalence of rainy days, numbering 22 in each, and the 
inevitable result of low temperature for the season of the year. 
The mean maximum or day temperature of June was 7 degs. 
below average, and that of July 4 degs. In the former month 
the thermometer never reached 70 degs., and in the latter only 
thrice, the highest reading being 71:5; whereas in the latter 
part of May there were also three very warm days, with a maxi- 
mum range from 70°5 to 75:2 degs. ; in August, seven, ranging 
from 70 to 74:5 degs.; and in September, seven, ranging from 
70°1 to 74 degs. The highest mean temperature occurred in the 
month of September—viz., 58°3 degs., as compared with 55-6 
degs. in June, 56:5 degs. in August, and 57 degs. in July. As 
regards the winter months, January was exceptionally mild and 
open, with a marked prevalence of southerly and south-westerly 
winds, and a mean temperature of 41°9 degs., being about 4 degs. 
above average. The mean temperature of February was 37:9 
degs., nearly 2 degs. below average, but almost the same as in 
1889. The coldest month of the year was December, with a 
mean temperature of only 33:5 degs. In this month there were 
seven days on which the maximum readings were under the 
freezing point, and as low as 27:2 degs. on the 13th; while 
there were nineteen nights of frost with an aggregate of 95 degs. 
The lowest temperature of the year was recorded on the night of 
the 13th or morning of the 14th December, when the sheltered 
thermometer registered 19 degs., and an exposed thermometer on 
the grass registered 11:5 degs. In the end of October there was 
a spell of severe cold, the sheltered thermometer falling as low as 
23-7 degs. on the 28th; and the same thing occurred in the end 
of November, from the 26th to the 29th, the readings ranging 
from 28-5 degs. to 23°3 degs., but otherwise the temperature of 
these months was above average. With our recollections of the 
wet and inclement weather of the summer months, and the per- 
sistent frost of December, it might have been supposed that the 
