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the 25th October and the 14th November, as well as in February 
and December, the barometer fell considerably below 29 in., and 
on these occasions the weather, as is usual in such circumstances, 
was stormy and wet. The mean pressure for the year (reduced 
to 32 deg. and sea level) was 29-895 in., which is a little below 
the average of the last eight years—viz., 29-923 in. There was 
only one month in which the mean pressure exeeeded 30 in., viz., 
September, with a record of 30:234 in; and it will be remembered 
how remarkable that month was for dryness and almost unbroken 
fine weather. 
Temperature (in shade, four feet above the grass).—On the 
30th of June the self-registering thermometer reached its highest 
point for the year, viz., 85 deg., illustrating what has been often 
observed before, that the highest single day temperatures 
frequently occur near the time of the summer solstice. The 
lowest was recorded on the 7th January, when it fell to 7 deg. in 
the screen and to | deg. on the grass, giving an annual range of 
78 deg. There were three nights of very severe frost at the period 
mentioned, from the 6th to the 8th January, when the minimum 
readings ranged from 7 to 13 deg., with the result of numerous 
ruptures of water-pipes and the freezing over of the river Nith. 
The mean annual temperature was 48 deg., which is about half a 
degree above the average of the last eight years. The annual 
means during these years have ranged from 46 deg. in 1892 to 
49-4 deg. in 1893, and on only two of these years, 1889 and 1893, 
has the annual temperature exceeded that of 1894, and in 1889 
only by one-tenth of a degree. The warmest month of the year 
was July, with a mean of 60-4 deg.; and the coldest January, 
with a mean of 37-2 deg. There were six months in which the 
mean temperature exceeded the average of the last eight years; 
viz., February, March, April, October, November, and December ; 
the excesses ranging from 0:4 deg. in October to 3:6 deg. in 
March and April. In November and December the excesses 
were about 2 deg. In the other months there was a deficiency, 
which was greatest in May, June, and August; but while the 
aggregate excesses amounted to 15 deg., the aggregate deficiences 
amounted only to 9 deg. There was a fair proportion of warm 
days, with a maximum temperature ranging from 70 deg. to 85 
deg. There were twenty-one in all, six of which occurred in the 
latter part of June, ten in July, only one in August, and four in 
September. This strikingly contrasts with the previous year, 
