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of former years, viz.: the small precipitation and the low tempera- 
ture. The latter condition, added to the similar low tempera- 
tures of February and the last half of January, closes a season of 
remarkable severity. At Worcester, Mass., the continued cold 
18 unexampled in the forty-seven years of continued observation, 
and it is probable that a similar result would be found at other 
Stations, were the records examined. The observations at Gard- 
mer, Me., Cambridge and Worcester, Mass., Providence, R. L, 
and New Haven, Conn., which cover a long succession of years, 
show that the average temperature of the three months, January, 
the four months, December, 1884,—March, 1885, 3°3° below the 
average. The month closed with warmer weather, but the frost 
™ the ground in southern New England extended to a depth of 
two or three feet, and good sleighing continued in the northern 
Section, 
“The unusually low average temperature of the month was the 
result of steady cold with but few single records of great sever- 
ity. ‘The temperature reached zero, however, at nearly all sta- 
Hons, as will be seen from Table [I. The month was the coldest 
M.D., E.R 
Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, arranged and. 
William Turner, M.B., F.R.S., Prof. of Med. and Anat. Univ. 
Edinburgh, with a biographical sketch by Edward B. Tylor, 
ERS., Keeper of the Museum, Oxford. 2 vols., 948 pp., 8vo, 
With portrait, plates and wood-cuts. 1884, Oxford, (Clarendon 
Press, Macmillan & Co.).—Dr. Rolleston was a scholar of 
Vigorous, independent, ever active mind, o 
Peo ctor at Oxford in 1860. He died in 1881 in his 52d year. 
1s scientific papers in the two volumes now published related to 
Subjects in physiology ; brain-anatomy ; human and simian brains; 
craniology of the British Barrows or Bushmen, etc., excavations 
M ancient cemeteries in England with descriptions of skeletons 
and other archwological facts; also on subjects in zoology; with 
addresses on the modifications of aspects of organic nature pro- 
duced by man; biological training and studies; the relative 
value of classical and scientific training ; the earth-closet system ; 
erhoia and enteric fever in Indian gaols, and on the relations of 
that disease and the cholera to the dry-earth system of conser- 
vancy ; and other topics. 
