306 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
be attributed. The excess of temperature was greatest at inland 
and eastern stations, but the average was exceeded by only a 
degree in Shetland. The week ending 10th September was 
phenomenally warm, the nocturnal temperature, accompanied by 
great humidity, being a very noticeable feature. In the vicinity 
of Edinburgh this was the warmest week since June 1826. The 
mean rainfall was 5 per cent, above the average, being below the 
normal in Shetland, in Clydesdale, and at eastern stations from 
the Moray Firth to the Cheviots. Over the part of the country 
not embraced by the above districts the rainfall was in’ excess, 
which was greatest at Airds, Inveraray, and Dollar, where nearly 
double the normal quantity was collected. Bright sunshine was 
very generally in excess of the normal. 
Abstract of Meteorological Observations made at Sixty-seven 
Stations of the Scottish Meteorological Society for the Year 
ending 30th September 1898, and compared with the Average 
of the Forty Years 1856-1895, 
| Temperature. Rainfall. Sunshine, 
| ——— 
| Mean Diff.from, Total Diff.from Total Diff. from 
| Temp. | Average.| Inches. Average.| Hours. | Average. | 
October 1897, 48°0 +1°6 2°47 | — 1°58 103 | =a | 
November  ,, 44°6 +4°0 3°24 — 0°42 38 — 54 
December _,, | 38°6 +0°8 5:37 +1°40 39 hip we 
January 1898, 42°9 +5°8 3°14 | -—0°76 36 -18 | 
February _,, 38°2 —0°2 3°90 | +0°84 75 - 7 
March 45 23 2°27 — 0°53 114 - 4 
April 5; | 45°6 +1°5 3°61 +1°47 107 — 48 
May Sy 47°7 -—1°3 2°62 + 0°34 175A ae 
June - 54°4 —0°4 2°32 | — 0°16 170 | —-44 
July + | 56°5 —0°6 1°52 — 1°65 ' 181 +10 
August f 57'3 +0°7 4°36 +0°73 140 | —15 
September ,, | 56°0 | +3°2 | 3°73 | +0°19 | 126 - 2 
|. Year; 47°4 +1°3 88°55 | —0°13 1300 | —199 | 
2. Report by WiLL1AM SomervILLE, M.A., D.C&c., D.Sc., 
E.R.S.E., F.L.S., Hon. Consulting Cryptogamist. 
During the past year several inquiries have reached me, but 
these, with one exception, had reference to damage induced by 
insects, and were passed on to the Hon. Entomologist. The only 
