| April ie 
ike Mean Temperature. Mean Rainfall. | aes 
leg Baebes ut.) ad | ES Leo Vesa) 
| a Ad Ar As BoE Ad ies As ra Ad 
| z FS ° ° Ins. Ins. | | Hrs. | Hrs. 
October 1896, | 42°2| —4:2]12°6|} +0°7| 462) +0°57 18 | +1 83 | — 22 
November ,, 141°5| +09] 9:8! —06] 1:90) —1°92] 13] -38 46 | -—27 
| December ,, | 37°6| —0°2] 9°3] —0°3| 5°61| +1°64]} 21) +5 32 | — 25 
| January 1897, | 34:2) —2°9] 9:2 OcOn ee 14; -38 52a—= 9on 
February ,, 39°4 +1°04101 070; 2°84) -0°227 15] O 56 | —29 
March ; | 40°4| +1°0710°4) —1°6] 4°89} +2°09] 24) +9 | f2a\—5il 
| 41°9| —2°2414°8| +0°4) 2°17) +0°03 14 | +2 140 | -21 
Vas | 1-7) 166 | +1°2| 2°29! o-oo] 14] 47 | tes ee 
a | 54°38) —0°5914°5| —1°3] 4°10) +1°62] 16] +3 120 | — 96 
~ | 58-2) +1°1116°8| +1'°9| 2°44) -0°73] 12) -8 238 | +39 
August Ae 58:9 | +2°3114°8| —0°4| 4:59) +0°96 19 | +3 | 153 | -—438 
September ,, | 51°0| —1°8]15°3| +1°5| 3-46| -O0-08] 18 | +2 | 118 | -24 
Means and \| 45.6) _9-6]19-8| +0-1| 40-66| +181] 198 |+17 | 1295 |-319 | 
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190 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
summer was cold and wet, but July and August were characterised 
by warm, sunny weather. September, over the greater part of 
the country, proved an ideal month for harvesting. 
Abstract of Observations of Temperature, Rainfall, and Sunshine 
as recorded at Sixty-seven Stations of the Scottish Meteoro- 
logical Society during the Year ending September 1897, and 
compared with the Averages of the previous Iorty Years. 
2. Report by Witu1aM SomMeRvVILLE, D.dic., D.Sc., F.R.S.E., 
F.L.S., Honorary Consulting Cry ptogamist. 
During the past year two inquiries have reached me regarding 
damage to trees by fungi. The first was from Mr William Forbes, 
Swinton, Yorkshire, under date 30th July 1897, and refers to an 
attack of Z'rametes radiciperda. Mr Forbes’s attention was first 
called to the disease by his noticing certain larches in a mixed 
wood, five years old, assuming a sickly appearance, and finally 
dying after an interval of two years. The soil is a sandy loam 
resting on gravel, and the disease was most prevalent at a place 
where the bed of the river Ure is only 10 feet below the level 
