couj^cjL I'OR 1875. 
15 
Sept. 26, the greatest storm estimated from 9 to 10. 
Days on which less than half the sky area was obscured 124 
Days on which more than half .241 
365 
Janiiary and November were distinguished by high floods. 
Jan. 5 and 6 the river gauge at Ouse Bridge showed 12 feet 
above summer level. 
Jan. 20—the same height. 
Nov. 15—13 feet. 
The Derwent river guage at Malton showed on 
Jan. 6 . . . . . lift. 6in. 
Jan. 20 .lift. 4in. 
Nov. 15 .12ft. Oin. 
The extraordinary inequality of Winter temperature repre¬ 
sented by December, 1874, being 6°.45 below average ; 
January, 1875, 2°.86 above; 
February, 2^72 below; 
was followed by abnormal summer reading of the Thermometer, 
July being especially cold, lower than any year except 1862, 
when the average monthly temperature was 1° lower than in 
1875. In Kent the average in those two years respectively 
was 58° and 59°. The result of the broken winter in being 
followed by a broken summer is in accordance with Greenwich 
observation for 105 years. 
The Society has to mourn the loss by death of more than an 
average number of valued and honom-ed members, who will not 
only be greatly missed by our own Society, but by the citizens 
of York generally. 
John Ford, Esq., Eobert Davies, Esq., F. S. A., Thomas 
Allis, Esq., F.L.S., three of the vice-presidents of the Society, 
and Joseph Munby, Esq., one of the Members of Council, have 
died dining the past year. 
Mr. Ford came to reside in York in 1828, and from that date 
took a deep interest in the various objects and in the welfare 
of the Society, having been elected a member so far back as the 
year 1834. For many years he was an active member of the 
