METEOROLOGY. 31 
from seeing distinctly its outlines. I could see, however, that it 
was a circular fort, whose rampart was mainly formed of stones, 
and that its size was not larger than the camp I had just left. 
1tth January, 1896. 
The Rev. WILLIAM ANDSON in the chair. 
New Members.—Messrs George Irving, Newcastle ; William 
D. Mackenzie, Henley-on-Thames; and Samuel Smith, M.P., 
Liverpool. 
Donations—Report of the British Association for the 
Advancement of Science. 
COMMUNICATIONS, 
I.—Report of the Meteorology of Dumfries for 1895. 
By the Rev. WILLIAM ANDSON. 
BAROMETER.—The highest reading of the year occurred on 
the 31st January, when it rose to 30°805 in., and the lowest on 
the 28th March, when it fell to 28-593 in., giving an annual range 
of 2212 in. There were other three occasions on which the 
barometer fell below 29 in.—the first in the middle of January, 
the second between the 9th and 12th November, and the third in 
the middle of December. Although the lowest reading registered 
was 28°593 in. on the 28th March, there is reason to believe that 
in the early morning of the 11th November the barometer touched 
a still lower point. This may be inferred from the circumstance 
that where readings were taken every hour during the night 
between the 10th and the 11th, considerably lower readings were 
recorded. At Leith, for example, where this was done, a reading 
of 28-352 in. was registered at 3a.m. The reading of 28-607 in. 
was registered here at 11 p.m. of the 10th, but the mercury at 
that hour was still falling, and in all probability, if a reading had 
been taken two hours later, say at 1 a.m., or two hours before the 
Leith observation of 28°325 in., it would have been equally low. 
The mean pressure for the year (reduced to 32 deg. and sea level) 
was 29-893 in., which is a little below the average of the last nine 
