THE STARCH OF EVERGREEN LEAVES 
to make a short statement regarding the temperature of Tokyo 
and other parts of Japan during the winter. . . 
_ Tokyo is situated in about the middle portion of the main 
island of Japan, 35°59’ N., 139° E. In January, the coldest 
month of the year, the sear at night often falls several — 
below zero centigrade, but rises sometimes to 10°C. 
during the day. The mean average temperature of the three 
Winter months in Tokyo, taken from the observations of the 
last twenty years in the Central Mictcore Obsereta | 
a follows: December, 5°1 ; January, 2°7; February 3°5. The 
Winter of 1898-99 was a little milder than usual, the record 
as follows: December, 6°4 ; January, 3°2; February, 4° ~~ 
The following table shows the mean temperature of several > : 
- stations from which the alcoholic specimens of evergreen | leaves ee 
Were sent to me for examination: s 
———— 
Statio Location Long. and Lat.| Dec. | Jam. 
Atm: -| Kiushu island, southern (32° 48° N.| 60, | 
eae! 126° E, | ee 
oo 35° 1 8. 
Middle Japan........... 136° Ej bis ee iS 
Northeastern Japan....... ; aE 25 2°7 8 a 
‘++| Hokkaido island, northern § 43° 3'N. —3°1 “hy 
re 138° 5" E 
es 
ed ES ipatison I give the mean temperature for January 
i localities of Europe and America: 
London, 3°5 New York, - = ie 
Fo Edinburgh, 320 Washington, 0°2 
Cas Dublin, 4°7 Boston, — 3°4 
7 Paris, 2°0 Chicago, — 5:0 
he | Marseilles, 6°4 - St. Louis, — 0°5 
: en, — of4 Rome, 627 Montreal, ee 
"ghout the Paper temperature i is expressed in centigrade. 
qeterological Station was found at t Nara, where the mate erial was coll 
em ta es 0, about twenty miles from Nara, and probably with ae 
3 fro te San € feason as above I give the record of Ishinomaki, about twenty 
: #1, where my material was collected. 
oe ogres were taken from J. Hann, Handbuch der Klimatlogie c 
