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Mr. Henry Bowman exhibited a chart of the temperature 
of the last winter months, compared with those of previous 
years. The principal results are tabulated below : — 
Maximum. 
Minimum. 
Eange. 
No. of days on which 
the temperature fell 
to or below 32°. 
Mean. 
Mean of 47 years, 
from 1794 to 1840, 
inclusive. 
Difference between 
the Mean of 1859-60, 
and that of 47 years, 
1794 to 1840. 
No. of months in same 
period, with Mean as 
low as 1859-60. 
1859. 
O 
O 
o 
O 
O 
o 
October 
73-0 
23-5 
49-5 
8 
49-3 
50-0 
— 
0-7 
20 
Noreraber . . . 
55-3 
21-0 
34-3 
12 
40-2 
42-9 
— 
2-7 
14 
December ... 
48-8 
9-5 
39-3 
21 
34-2 
390 
- 
4-8 
3 
1860. 
Januai’y 
55'6 
190 
36-6 
15 
37-3 
36-7 
+ 
0-6 
26 
February .. 
50-0 
18-5 
325 
21 
35-4 
39-3 
— 
3-9 
4 
March 
55-0 
21-0 
340 
11 
40-0 
41'8 
— 
1-8 
11 
The 6 mos. ) 
together. ) 
730 
9-5 
64-5 
88 
39-4 
41 6 
— 
2-2 
Mr. Dyer having taken the Chair, 
The President read “ A Memoir of the late John Ken- 
nedy, Esq.” 
The subject of this Memoir was born at Knocknalling, 
in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, N.B., on the 4th of 
July, 1769, and his father (who died whilst Mr. Kennedy 
was young) was a laird, living upon and cultivating a small 
farm property. Mr. Kennedy’s early educational advantages 
were very small, as is necessarily the case in remote mountain 
districts, but he owed to his mother’s strong sense those 
qualities of character which afterwards distinguished him. 
Pressure of circumstances drove him, at fourteen years of 
age, to seek in this part of the United Kingdom the means 
of support which the home farm would not aft’ord. He was 
apprenticed to Messrs. Caiman and Smith, the machine 
makers, at Chowbent, in 1784, and at the close of this 
