JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



California Academy of Sciences 



Presented by A si at ic Society of 

 Bengal. 



Apr il. 



?. 



-, 190-7-.. 



SCIENCE, 



fe. — By 0. Little, 



) members of this 

 3rature conditions 



who are not aware 



thafc, while Bengal was not the only part of Northern India in which 

 exceptional temperature was experienced, it had a practical monopoly 

 of the high temperatures. The period of excessive heat which began 

 in Bengal about the middle of April and ended on the 24th of May was 

 without precedent as regards length, and just failed to surpass previous 

 records as regards intensity. Taking the case of Calcutta and keeping 

 in mind that on several occasions during the past ten years the record 

 of previous maximum temperatures has been broken, a comparison of 

 the highest temperatures will show how the present year surpasses 

 other years since the beginning of systematic meteorological observa- 

 tion. 



The following Table gives all maximum temperatures above 103° 

 with dates of occurrence, at Alipore since 1893, 

 J. II. 1 



