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much as we have already had this year—during January and the 
first week of February. 
Hygrometer.—The annual mean of the dry bulb thermometer 
was 47:3 deg., and of the wet bulb 45 deg.; giving 42-2 deg. as 
the temperature of the dew point, and a relative humidity of 84 
saturation being equal to 100. This differs little from previous 
years ; the average difference between the annual means of dry 
and wet bulb being 2°3 deg., the same as during the past year, 
and the average relative humidity 83—although in 1893, the 
year of highest mean annual temperature, it fell to 82. 
Thunderstorms, &c.—These have not been of frequent occurrence 
during the year. There was one in February, one in April, 
three in May, two in July, and two in August—in all nine. On 
some of these occasions, however, they were distant, and there 
was either thunder without lightning or lightning without 
thunder. The most severe storm of the year was that of the 6th 
July, which began about 5 p.m. and continued till 7.30, with 
loud thunder peals and incessant flashes of lightning. The 
maximum temperature of that day was 78°8 deg., and the wind 
was south in the morning, and backed in the course of the day to’ 
E.8.E. The storm was accgmpanied by a rainfall of 0-71 in. 
There was a repetition on the 8th of electrical disturbance, but 
on a much diminished scale. I have noted the occurrence of 
hail showers eleven times, four of which occurred in May and 
three in November; lunar halos, twice in February and twice in 
August; and solar halos, twice, once in March and once in May. 
There were probably more of these latter phenomena in the course 
of the year, but I did not observe them. 
Wind.—The summary of wind directions shews that on 19 
days it blew from due north, on 394 days from N.-E., on 47 days 
from the E., on 24} from 8.-E., on 704 from S.-W., on 61 from. 
W., on 374 from N.-W., and that on 17} it was variable or calm. 
As usual, the 8.-W. wind was the most frequent, and taking the 
S., §.E., and W. along with it, it appears that 203 days out of 
the 365 were characterised by winds from these directions, and 
that the northerly and easterly, including the north-west, had 143 
days. Comparing this with the wind record of 1893, it appears 
that there was a preponderance of southerly and westerly winds 
in 1893, as contrasted with 1894. There were 20 days more 
wind from the 8. and W., and 12 days less from the N. and E. 
The effect of this upon temperature is evident from the fact that 
