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IV. Number of Nights each Week on which the Thermometer ^ exposed 
in the Botanic Garden^ four feet above the ground, fell to freezing 
(32’0). An asterisk (*) is put to indicate the nights on which it 
fell to at least 6’0 below freezing. 
Report on the Weather of October, November, and December 1863, as 
compared with the previous Six Years. By Mr Alexander Buchan. 
The first three tables present a detailed statement of the tem- 
perature in October, Novemher, and December, during the seven 
years ending with 1863, as observed at Balfour, near Markinch, in 
Fife, one of the stations of the Scottish Meteorological Society. It 
is the nearest station to Edinburgh at which full and well-authen- 
ticated observations on temperature have been made for so long a 
period, and, besides, its position is such as to represent fairly both 
sides of the Forth. 
Table I. gives the mean monthly temperature of the day and of 
the night, and the mean temperature of these months for the past 
seven years, and a comparison of 1863 with the means of the pre- 
vious six years. From this Table, we learn that the peculiar features 
of the weather of October, November, and December last, as respects 
temperature, were as follow : — ■ 
In October, the mean temperature was nearly a degree (0°‘8) above 
the average of the month ; but whilst the mean temperature of the 
day was less than half a degree (0°-4), that of the night was about a 
