CXXXV 1 PROCEEDINGS—PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCE. 
THE MUSEUM. 
As you are all aware, one important event has taken place since 
our last meeting, namely, the transference of the Museum from the 
Society to the Town. This is a matter for congratulation, inasmuch 
as it assures the maintenance of the Museum as a Public Institution 
for all time coming. Many of you, I am aware, have a certain feel¬ 
ing of regret that the Museum is now no longer the exclusive pro¬ 
perty of the Society. For all practical purposes, how r ever, our interest 
in the Museum will continue to be as great as ever, and I have no 
doubt that the Town will always be only too pleased to accept the 
assistance of the Society in extending the collections. It is stipulated, 
too, that the Society is to retain the exclusive use of the Library and 
Lecture Room, so long as they shall continue to pay a rent for the 
same. The only stipulation which the Town Council made in 
accepting the gift was an eminently reasonable one, namely, that we 
should find the funds required for its maintenance during the first 
five years. Towards the amount required for this purpose I am 
pleased to say that Mr. Andrew Carnegie, after his recent visit to 
Perth, sent me a cheque for ^125, being the equivalent of a sub¬ 
scription of ,£25 a year for the next five years. With like assistance 
from a few other friends of the Museum, in addition to the usual 
grants from the County Council, Town Council, School Board, 
Duncan Trust, and Co-operative Society, I have no doubt that the 
Treasurer, Mr. Morison, will have very little difficulty in raising the 
amount required. 
SEASONAL NOTES. 
The weather during the past summer has been exceptional in 
more than one respect, but especially in the long-continued want of 
sunshine. This has made many people imagine that the season has 
been abnormally cold and wet, but such, as will be seen from the 
following tables, is not altogether the case, although the temperature 
has been slightly below the average. The conditions, in fact, have 
been exactly the reverse of those which obtained during the summer 
of 1901, when there was an exceptional amount of sunshine, and 
long continuance of cloudless skies. 
The mean temperatures recorded at Pitcullen during the summer 
six months of 1901 and 1902 were as follows :— 
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May, - 
50.8° F. 
45 - 6 ° F - 
June, • 
- 54 -i° F. 
52.9° F. 
July, - 
62.7° F. 
55 - 3 ° F - 
August, - 
- 59.2 0 F. 
54 - 4 ° F. 
September,- 
54 - 4 ° F. 
52.0° F. 
October, 
- 45 -i° F. 
46.2° F. 
The mean temperature for the summer months of 1902 was thus 
51.i° F., as compared with 54.4 0 F. in 1901, or 3.3 0 F. less. The 
highest temperature registered was 79 0 F., on 30th June, and the 
