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months of the year, and above the average in the last three months, 
especially in December. 
The mean temperature of the year was 46""2, which svas 3°'3 
below the a\'erage of the previous 38 years ; the mean temperature 
of the last three months of the year was i'^-G below the average. 
The month of December was the coldest in this century ; its mean 
temperature was 6^" 7 below the average. 
The rainfall in 1878 was heavy, 29*0 inches, but this was 
exceeded in 1879, when 31"4 inches fell, or 5-0 inches above the 
average of the preceding 64 years. It rained on 179 days out of 
the 365. The falls of rain in the second and third quarter of the 
year were remarkably excessive, and measured respectively 10-3 
inches and ll'T inches, being 4-5 inches and 4-4 inches above the 
respective average amounts of the previous 64 years. The down- 
fall in August was 5*2 inches, and exceeded the average for the 
month by 2-8 inches. 
The wind swept the earth at the mean velocity of 11*6 miles 
an hour, which is about a mile an hour above the average of 
30 years. 
[Table I. 
