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REPORT OE THE 
right to say that the pupils of the York School of Art have the 
privilege of visiting the Grardens and Conservatory for the 
pui’pose of drawing from nature as models for designs, and 
several have availed themselves of the privilege. 
In the Ornithological Department the Curator has only 
to repoid the addition of one valnahle specimen, the ‘‘ Little 
Kestril Hawk, Falco Cenchris” presented by John Hanison, 
Esq., of Wilstrop Hall, which is added to the Rndston collection. 
He takes the opportunity of referring to an ‘‘Association for the 
protection of sea birds on the English coast,” hoping that persons 
interested in natural history vail give their support to it. 
The Curators of Astronomical Instruments report that 
the large Telescope in the Observatory has been remounted 
equatorially by Messrs. Cooke. A Clock-work movement has 
been also added, and the instrument is now one of the most 
perfect of its class. The cost of this improvement has been 
upwards of £60. The adjustment of this instrument was 
superintended by our late honorary member and fellow-citizen, 
Mr. Thomas Cooke, whose death shortly after, at the compar¬ 
atively early age of 62, the Society in common vith all lovers 
of Astronomy has to lament. 
By the subjoined table, prepared by Mr. Ford, it appears that 
the mean Temperature of York for the year 1868 was 49’5 or 
two degrees above a mean of 30 years. This mean had only 
been surpassed three times in the last 37 years, viz., in 1831, 
1834, 1846. The Thermometer denoted 80° and upwards, 
tvice in June, six times in July, five times in August, and 
twice in September. The highest point, 86°, was attained 
August 6th. The lowest temperature of the year was 24° on 
the 4th of January, and again on the 29 th of November. The 
rain-fall was below a mean eight months of the year; above, in 
April, September, October, and December. In the last named 
month, six inches fell, being more than three times the mean of 
thirty years. This extraordinary amount carried the rain-fall 
to 25*8 inches, or two inches above a mean. In November and 
December the variations in barometrical pressui’e were extreme, 
the range in November being 1*6 inch, and in December 1*4 
inch. 
