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460 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
CLIMATOLOGICAL STATISTICS. 
Reports for October were received from 66 stations. The average 
rainfall from the records of 62 stations was 0.24inches ranging from 
0.00 at Glencoe to 0.90 inches at Mazeppa and at Tower. 
The average number of days with rainfall was 2. 
The average temperature from the records of 62 stations was 41.4°, 
The highest monthly mean temperature was 45.8° at Montevideo and 
the lowest 32° at Grand Portage. The maximum temperature for 
the month was 81 degrees at Moorhead on the 17th. The minimum 
was one degree below zero at Ada on the 29th. The absolute range 
for the month and the state therefore was 82 degrees. The greatest 
local monthly range was 80 degrees at Ada, the least, 46 degrees at 
Grand Portage. The greatest daily range was 52° at Ada on the 12th, 
and at New London on the 26th, and the least, 0 at Grand Portage on 
the 7th. 
From the records of 63 stations reporting the state of weather, 
there were on an average 15 clear, 9 partly cloudy and 7 cloudy days. 
The prevailing direction of the wind as determined from 61 sta- 
tions was N. W. 
IN MEMORIAM. 
MRS. CHAS. G. PATTEN, CHARLES CITY, IOWA. 
We are called upon to record the sudden death of Mrs. C. G. Pat- 
ten, who died of heart failure at her home in Charles City, Ia., on 
the 12th day of October, 1895. 
Mrs. Mary Ann Patten was born in Brighton, Me., February 3, 1842; 
and was the daughter of Henry C.,and Mary Ann Whittier. She 
came with her parents to Green Lake Co., Wis., in July, 1846, where 
she lived through her girlhood years. She was married December 
28, 1863, to Charles G. Patten, and in November, 1864, the young 
couple came to Charles City, Ia., where they have since resided until 
her decease. Mrs. Patten was the mother of six children, three sons 
and three daughters, and her husband, three sons and two daugh- 
ters survive her. She was an amiable and consistent christian wom- 
an, was deeply interested in the temperance reform, an active mem- 
ber of the W. C. T. U. and a gentle, loving wife, mother and friend 
who looked well after the comfort and happiness of her family. 
Mr. Patten is well known in this society as an enthusiastic experi- 
mental horticulturist and an honorable nurseryman, and in this 
hour of sad bereavement he and sorrowing members of the family 
have the full heartfelt sympathy of his large number of friends in 
the ranks of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society. 
J. S. HARRIS. 
