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REPORT OF THE 
of Welham, and a few eggs from Mr. F. Herring. By tlie 
death of Mr. Grraham, and on the sale of his specimens, the 
>Society was enabled to obtain a few desiderata in then* collec¬ 
tion of oology. The collection is in perfect order, under the 
supervision of Mr. Wakefield. 
The Curators of Insects and Crustacea and of Botany repoid 
that no specimens have been added to the Society’s collections 
during the past year, and that the collections are in good order. 
In consequence of the death of our respected Yice-President, 
John Ford, Esq., the report on Meteorology has been fiumished 
by the deputy Curator of the Museum, who some time ago, by 
the leave of the Council, was permitted to make arrangements 
with E>. H. Scott, Esq., F. B. S., of the Board of Trade, to 
forward to that Department daily a report of the weather, and 
the barometrical and thermometrical readings. 
The mean height of the mercurial column for the year was 
29*9653 inches, being rather more than one-tenth of an inch 
higher than the mean for the last ten years. The amount of 
rain has been a little more than a mean, viz., 24*38 inches 
against 23*98 inches the mean of the forty years ending 
December 31st, 1871. The deficiency in the rainfall of 1874 
was nearly three inches below a mean of the above period, so 
that a quantity of two inches and a half upon the past two years 
has still to be made up, January, July, September, October, and 
November being respectively 1*26, *81, *02, 1*39, and 1*64 
inches above a mean of 40 years; while February, March, 
April, May, June, August, and December were *51, *91, 1*18, 
*22, *09, *78, and one inch were below the mean of that period. 
The greatest fiood in the river Ouse during the past year was 
on January 5th, on the breaking up of the frost of 1874, reach¬ 
ing a maximum height of 13 feet above the summer level; 
one nearly approaching this occurred on the 15th of November, 
when the river rose to the height of 12ft. 4in. after a heavy rain¬ 
fall of 1*07 inches on the 13th, with the wind blowing west 
south-west. The rainfall at Malton for 1875 was 28*49 inches, 
whereas that of 1874 amounted only to 23*19 inches. The mean 
