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REPORTS BY THE HONORARY 
OFFICIALS. 
1. Report on the Meteorology of Scotland for the Year ending 
September 1896. By R. C. Mossman, F.R.S.E., Honorary 
Consulting Meteorologist. 
The following remarks are deduced from the bi-diurnal observa- 
tions made at sixty-seven stations of the Scottish Meteorological 
Society, the data being already reduced by Dr Buchan, and 
published quarterly as an appendix to the Registrar-General’s 
returns. Other sources of information, such as the monthly 
abstracts issued by the London Meteorological Office, have also 
been utilised. It is hoped that some scheme will be inaugurated 
during the coming year whereby the relations of climate to 
forestry will be shown in their more immediate and _ practical 
bearings. In the meantime, the following statement, summarising 
the more salient features of the weather experienced over Scotland 
during the twelve months under review, is submitted. 
October 1895.—The weather of October was very changeable. 
The month opened with a continuation of the phenomenal warmth 
of September, the temperature at many places exceeding 70° in 
the shade on the first two days of the month. Cold, arctic con- 
ditions, however, set in about the end of the first week, with the 
result that the mean temperature of the month was nearly 
4° below the average. The depression of temperature was 
relatively greater in the south than in the north of the country, 
being greatest in Galloway. Rainfall was a little over the 
average, but was distributed throughout the country in a 
capricious manner. In the counties of Roxburgh and Berwick 
more than double the average precipitation was recorded, while 
the deficit was considerable over nearly the whole of the western 
districts. Bright sunshine was in excess of the average. 
November 1895.—The weather throughout the greater part of 
the month was very unsettled, gales and heavy rains being 
