Notes on the Weather. 



[dec, 



The Canadian Government have forbidden any vessel carry- 

 ing live-stock from a port in the United States to touch at a 

 Canadian port, and have prohibited the entrance into Canada 

 of any stock, for any purposes, that has been within the limits 

 •of any Prohibited State within the previous two months, either 

 in transit or otherwise, and they have also prohibited the 

 shipment to Europe of any Canadian animals through any 

 American port, or the shipment of Canadian animals from a 

 Canadian port in vessels carrying American stock. 



The United States Government have absolutely prohibited 

 the movement of stock from the States quarantined by their 

 Orders, and have also prohibited the inter-state or foreign 

 transportation of hides, skins and hoofs of cattle, sheep and 

 •other ruminants, and hay, straw and fodder from the 

 ■quarantined area. 



A monograph on " The Food of some British Birds," by Mr. 



Robert Newstead, M.Sc, A.L.S., &c, is 



Supplement to the issued with the present number. This 

 Journal. Supplement is supplied free to sub- 



scribers to the Journal, but it may be 

 obtained separately, price 4^., post free. 



The weather during the whole of November was with very few exceptions quite 

 .unusual. During the first week, although bright sunshine was "scanty "in most 

 parts of Great Britain it was " abundant " in the South ot 



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"abundant ). Rainfall was " light 01 very light 

 in. JN0VemD8r. everywhere. During the second week the weather was 



at first dry and frosty, later mild and changeable. 

 Sunshine was "abundant " in Scotland and "very abundant" throughout England. 

 Rainfall about the average. During the third week the temperature was 

 .above the mean, but the sunshine and rainfall about the average. The 

 weather of the fourth week was variable. The temperature was " unusual " 

 or "very unusual" everywhere. Rainfall was light except in Scotland. Sun- 

 shine was "abundant" in Scotland, E., and England, S.E. The records show 

 that for ten of the thirteen weeks of autumn the temperature in the N.E. of England 

 was above the average, and in only one week was it below. In Scotland, W., and 

 Ireland, N., it was over the average for ten weeks, and below for two. In the 

 Midlands it was above for eight weeks and below for two. . In England, E. and N.W., 

 it was above for seven weeks and below for two. It will be seen, therefore, that the 

 •season was exceptionally warm everywhere. 



Correspondents from Berkshire comment on the mildness of the weather and the 

 absence of fogs and frost (except on three days). The weather has been favourable 

 to farming ; gra c s and keep were plentiful and good progress was made wilh all kinds 

 of work. One correspondent adds, " Some of the evenings towards the concluding 

 parts of the month have felt as warm as summer evenings. Everyone remarked upon 

 (the beautiful greenness of the grass at the close of the month. " 



