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REPORT OF THE 
maximum attained was 83*3 on July 5tli, and the minimum 
was 19° on March 1st and 2nd, giving a range of 64’3°. The 
winter months have been marked by very exceptional weather, 
frosts having begun in the latter end of October, when the 
mercury fell to 27*5°, while the months of November and 
December have been, on the other hand, exceptionally mild. 
The November of 1881 was indeed the warmest ever known in 
York since oiu’ records began. 
The total amount of Bainfall during the year was 28*9 
inches, which is 2'03 less than in 1880. The number of days 
in which rain fell amounts to 199 ; the heaviest rains occurring 
on August 23rd and September 22nd, when the rainfall 
amounted to 1*09 and 1*08 inches. November and December 
were unusually dry. 
The annual rainfall at Cherry Hill, York, and at Ilkley, 
according to records kindly supplied by Mr. Eichard Thompson, 
amounted to 28*42 and 44*78 respectively. 
The north winds which were so prevalent in 1880 have 
been far less frequent in 1881, there being only 65 North wind 
observations against 93 of the previous year, but the more 
genial south and west winds have largely predominated, there 
being 120 south and 148 west winds recorded during the year. 
On April 1st an evening lecture on “ York in the Grreat 
Ice Age ” was delivered by Mr. Walter Keeping, M.A. 
Thirty-two New Members, four Lady Subscribers, and 
four Associates have been added to the Society during the 
present year, whilst the Society has lost by death eleven Mem¬ 
bers, and by resignation eighteen Members three Lady 
Subscribers and four Associates. The Council propose for 
election as New Members of Council E. Thompson, Esq., late 
Sheriff of York; Eev. W. C. Hey, Dr. Baker, and E. L. 
Mawdsley, Esq., in the room of W. C. Anderson, Esq., W. 
Atkinson, Esq., Eev. Gr. H. Hewison, and Eev. T. B.B. Ferris, 
who retire by rotation. 
