108 MEAN METEOROLOGICAIi RESULTS 



that Bassus was consul with Quintianus, A.D. 289, i.e., in the first or second 

 year of Caeausius. The inscription will therefore stand thus : — 

 Name of person who erected the building ending 



ATIVS or APiTS or Aiivs 



CONDIDIT 



BASSO ET QUINTIANO COS 



In the fac-simile which Mr. Skinner has preserved in his MS., the stone is 

 small, about 8 inch by 2J inch, and the building itself appears not to have been 

 mentioned in the Inscription, only the name of the builder and the date. It was 

 found in digging out the interior of a small inner chamber. 



The reading — CONDIDIT — seems to me very improbable. For 

 what was it that was " founded " or (as some translate) " built ? " 

 Certainly not urbs nor oppidum, nor the equivalent mcenia. Neither 

 can it have been murus, templum, cedes, basilica., horreum, or some such 

 object, for it will, I think, be difficult to find any authority in ancient 

 authors or inscriptions for this use of the verb. A stone, indeed, is 

 said to have been found, near Carlisle, on which was inscribed — SEPT. 

 SEVEROIMP-QVI MVRVM HVNC CONDIDIT, but this is evi- 

 dently a ^counterfeit, bearing no resemblance to a genuine inscription. 

 Dr. Bruce, of course, rejects it as ''obviously spurious." I suggest 

 [Dj ON'DEDIT, i.e. dono dedit as a much more probable reading. 



MEAN METEOROLOGICAL RESULTS AT TORONTO FOR 

 THE TEAR 1864. 



BY G. T. KINGSTON, M.A. 



DIHECTOE OF THE PBOVINCIAl MAGNETIC OBSEEVATOET, TOEONXO. 



The mean temperature of the year 1864 was 44°.70, or 0°.53 in 

 ©XC3S3 of the average of twenty-five years. The deviation of the 

 monthly means above or below their respective averages, and irre- 

 spective of sign, had an average amplitude of 1*.36 ; thus indicating 

 a year of unusually equable temperature, the average amplitude in 

 twenty-five years being 2°. 33. 



•See Camden, iii., p. 513. 



