THE Lost STONE OF KIRKMADRINE. 143 
7. The later Whithorn crosses, beginning in the oth 
century. 
We seem to have here, in spite of the total blank in 
history, evidence of the continuation of the Church in Gallo- 
way, past the time when the Northumbrian Angles settled 
there and started their own Bishopric, right into the Viking 
Age; a Church, by its monuments, allied in its earlier history 
to that in Wales, and still perhaps to be re-discovered by (1) 
further finds of stones, and possibly early types of cell- 
chapels; (2) a better understanding of Welsh hagiology. 
There is work for the D. and G. N. H. and A. Society. 
Extracts from Weather and other Nature Notes 
taken at Jardington during 1916. 
By J. RUTHERFORD. 
JANUARY. 
New-Year’s Day was very stormy, with heavy rains, high 
wind, and heavy flood on the Cluden. The weather through- 
out the month was very changeable. There was rather high 
wind on several days. Ona number of mornings it was quite 
like spring, particularly so on the last five days, when the 
singing of birds was heard on every side. The wind was 
mostly from the west and south-west. The rainfall (which 
was well distributed over the month) was above the average, 
and the highest recorded here in January since 1904. 
The most remarkable feature of the month was the high 
temperature, being about 6 degrees above the mean for 48 
years as recorded in Glasgow University Observatory. My 
record does not extend so far back. It may be interesting to 
compare the temperature record here with that of Glasgow, 
and to observe how little difference there is between them :— 
Jardington. Glasgow. 
Daily mean maximum... 49.68 deg. 48.5 
_ Daily mean minimum... 38.68 deg. 40.4 
Daily mean for month 44.18 deg. 44.6 
