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The subject of essay set by the Perthshire Society of Natural 
Science last year was “A Perthshire River.” 80 essays were 
received from children attending schools in the City and County. 
At the prize distribution, the President, Mr W. Barclay, occu¬ 
pied the chair, and Lord Provost Scott gave the young folks a 
short address, and afterwards distributed the prizes. 
Observations were made daily at 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. on 
the weather at Perth. Those taken in the morning were 
available to the public by means of a chart placed in the 
window alongside of the forecast chart issued by the British 
Meteorological Office each day. Returns were sent each 
week to the office of the Registrar General ; and a report to 
the local press; monthly returns to the Scottish Meteorological 
Society ; to Dr Mill, British Rainfall ; to the Manager, Water¬ 
works, Perth. An abstract for the year 1912 was supplied to 
the Medical Officer of Health for the City, and also to the 
Perthshire Society of Natural Science, and appears at the end 
of this Report, 
The Reports are now compared with a 30 years’ average. 
Mr Watt, of the Scottish Meteorological Society, has been 
kind enough to supply the Curator with the monthly rainfall 
returns for Perth prior to 1883, namely, from 1855. We are 
thus in possession of monthly rainfall returns for nearly 60 
years. 
Abstracts and reports on the weather of particular periods 
were supplied to the County Council, the Town Council, and 
to others requiring the information for special or for technical 
purposes. 
It might be pointed out that no record is kept of the 
amount of sunshine at Perth, as we do not possess a sunshine 
recorder. It would be useful as well as interesting to know 
the amount received at Perth during each period. 
Thanks are due to the local Press for their courtesy in pub¬ 
lishing occasional notes of donations, exhibits, and observations. 
The number of visitors to the Museum for the year was v 
11,023, making a total of 278,724 since the opening. 
