MISCELLANEOUS DATA. 



In Table 10 are given the dates of the opening and closing 

 of navigation on the Penobscot River at Bangor each year from 

 1816 to 1905. Table n contains the dates of the severe frosts 

 at Orono. Table 12 shows the number of thunderstorms each 

 month from 1869 to 1904. Tables 13 and 14 give the solar and 

 lunar halos, and in Table 15 are shown the number of auroras 

 observed during each month. The following notes regarding 

 various phenomena, while by no means complete, serve to indi- 

 cate the character of the climate of Orono: 



Ice. The latest date on which ice was formed each year 

 from 1869 to 1875 was > J 869 April n; 1870, April 8; 1871, 

 March 13; 1872, April 20; 1873, April 20; 1874, April 16; 

 1875, April 16. 



Snoiv. Five inches of snow fell on May 3, 1885. 



Gales. Gales or high winds are recorded on the following 

 dates: 1875, October 31; 1880, February i, March 30, April 

 29; 1883, November 12; 1884, November 23; 1886, November 

 6, 18. 



Destructive winds are recorded on the following dates : 1870, 

 July 14; 1873, July 26; 1882, August 15; 1890, July 8; 1892, 

 June 14. 



Parhelia are noted as follows: 1887, January 31; 1889, Feb- 

 ruary 22; 1890, January 18, February 10, March 25, 31, April 

 29; 1891, February 2, 3, 5, 27, May 21, 22; 1892, February 7. 



Meteors were seen: 1875, March 24; 1887, September 15; 

 1888, January 4, December 28; 1889, November 17; 1890, 

 August u, 12; 1891, January 8. 



The zodiacal light was observed in the evening on the follow- 

 ing dates : 1877, March 21; 1878, January 29, 30; 1879, Jan- 

 uary 10, 14, 23; 1880, January n; 1882, March 7, 8; 1883, 

 January 29, February 7, 8, 26, March 8; 1886, February 22, 

 23; 1887, February 14, 21 ; 1-888, February 2, 3, 29, December 

 23; 1889, December 16; 1890, January 17, 18, 21, 29, Febru- 

 ary 9, 10, n, 13, 15, 16, March 9; 1891, January 8, 10, Febru- 

 ary 2, 10, 27, March 6, 7. Observations were made practically 

 every evening but of course certain of the phenomena may 

 have been missed. 



