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barometer was higher than all round. Where there were 

 high barometers in summer there was great heat. Thus 

 in the south of England these anti-cyclones remained or 

 succeeded each other so continuously that there was 

 brilliant weather in July, while Scotland was involved in 

 the clouds and cold, wind and rain of cyclones. In the 

 previous year the circumstances were reversed. In August, 

 a disastrous month over the whole of Scotland, the tem- 

 perature was close on 4° below the average. There were 

 only two colder Augusts in the last 118 years — those of 

 1782 and 1830. In October also the temperature was 

 very unequally distributed, as was shown by maps ex- 

 hibited, Mr Buchan also produced maps showing the 

 rainfall over the country for the different months of the 

 year, bringing out in these also interesting results as to 

 the inequalities in the snowfall and rainfall in different 

 districts. He mentioned that by far the heaviest rainfall 

 occurred on the foreshores looking north when the wind 

 was N.E. or E. By taking these differences of tempera- 

 ture and rainfall into account as regards August and subse- 

 quent months, an explanation was obtained of how it is 

 that different results as regard the crops occur in different 

 districts. He had no doubt that such results would be 

 put by and by to considerable use in forecasting the yield 

 of the harvest. In conclusion, Mr Buchan remarked that 

 in connection with the last very extraordinary season, the 

 Scottish Meteorological Society were fortunate in having an 

 observer (Mr Wragge) on Ben Nevis. 



The following Statement respecting the membership of 

 the Society was read : — 



Honorary Fellows. 



Royal Personages, . , , , 4 



British Subjects, ... 6 



Foreign, ..... 21 



Foreign and Corresponding Members, . 69 



