METEOROLOGY. 33 
years. The highest monthly mean was in February, viz., 30:163 
in., and the next highest in May and September, with values of 
30°136 in. and 30-092 in. The weather in these months was for 
the most part anti-cyclonic, with very light winds and small rain- 
fall; but as regards February with the severest frost and also the 
heaviest snowstorm of the year. The lowest barometrical means 
were in March, with 29:640 in., and December, with 29-704 in. 
But January and November had records almost equally low, and 
in these months the weather was for the most part changeable 
and unsettled, with occasional strong gales and heavy rain, and 
in March with a good deal of snow. 
TEMPERATURE (in shade 4 feet above the grass).—The 
highest single day temperature of the year was on the 7th June, 
when 82:5 deg. was recorded; but the maximum of the 25th June 
was little short of this with a reading of 81-4 deg., and in Sep- 
tember there were three days in which the temperature reached 
or exceeded 80 deg., viz., the 9th, the 27th, and the 28th, ranging 
from 80 deg. to 81:3 deg. While the absolute maximum was 
82-5 deg. the absolute miimum or lowest temperature of the year 
was 1 deg. below zero, which occurred twice on the night 
of the 8th and again on that of the 10th February, giving 
an annual range of 83:5 deg. The warmest month was August, 
with a mean of 59°8 deg., the next warmest, September, with a 
mean of 58°8 deg., June had 58-5 deg., and July, which is often 
the warmest month of the year, had only 57:5 dee. ; but it was a 
cloudy and showery month, with a marked deficiency of sunshine, 
which may account for its being under average in point of tempera- 
ture. The mean temperature of the year, taken as a whole, was 
46°7 deg. The average of the last nine years is 47:7 deg., so 
that the mean of 1895 is 1 deg. below average. The months in 
which the temperature was in excess of the normal were April, by 
one and a half deg.; May, by two deg.; June, by fully three- 
quarters of a deg. ; August, by two deg.; September, by nearly 
four dey.; and November, by three-quarters of a deg. The 
months in which there was the greatest deficiency were — 
January by six to seven deg. ; February, by ten deg; July, by 
one deg.; and October, by two and three-quarter dee. Thus, 
while there was an excess of rather more than ten deg. in the 
monthly means, there was a deficiency of fully twerty, so that it 
can be no matter for surprise that the annual mean for the past 
