=========+===========+===========+=====+=============+============== Month | Mean | Mean |Rela-| Rainfall | Remarks | Maximum | Minimum | tive| | |Temperature|Temperature| Hu- | | +----+------+----+------+ mid +-----+-------+ | F. | ~C.~ | F. | ~C.~ | ity | Ins.| ~Mm.~ | ---------+----+------+----+------+-----+-----+-------+-------------- January |60·2|~15·7~|50·1|~10·0~| 78 | 5·51|~139·7~|Total Annual February |63·0|~17·2~|50·3|~10·2~| 79 | 1·04| ~26·2~|Rainfall, 17·1 March |63·4|~16·8~|49·8|~9·9~ | 73 | 1·04| ~26·2~|ins., or 40·3 April |65·6|~18·5~|52·4|~11·3~| 78 | 2·18| ~55·2~|cm. May |72·3|~22·4~|59·1|~15·0~| 78 | 0·55| ~14·0~| June |80·7|~27·0~|64·9|~18·3~| 72 | 0·38| ~10·0~| July |88·0|~31·1~|70·6|~21·3~| 70 | 0·00| ~0·0~| August |84·9|~29·4~|70·7|~21·4~| 77 | 0·02| ~0·1~| September|83·3|~28·5~|68·7|~20·4~| 77 | 0·10| ~2·5~| October |81·7|~27·5~|67·3|~19·8~| 78 | 0·60| ~15·2~| November |71·1|~21·7~|59·0|~15·0~| 83 | 3·64| ~92·5~| December |62·6|~16·8~|52·2|~11·2~| 85 | 1·04| ~26·2~| =========+====+======+====+======+=====+=====+=======+============== During the summer, periods of hot dry winds blowing from the burning African deserts are somewhat trying, but these do not, as a rule, last for many consecutive days, and on the whole the climate is not unhealthy. A peculiar infective fever, commonly known as “Malta fever,” but also met with in other parts of the Mediterranean littoral, as well as in India, and very troublesome on account of its obstinate tendency to relapse, is the most serious drawback in the matter of disease, but under improving modern sanitation the disease is yearly becoming less common. The climate of the Syrian coast is very similar, but somewhat warmer, with a heavier rainfall; so also is that of Algiers and the North African coast generally, there being, however, mostly a wider range between the hottest and coldest months than in the purely insular Malta. Malaria, dysentery, and other tropical diseases are not uncommon, but seldom either widely spread or particularly virulent. As we leave the coast, the range of temperature, both annual and diurnal, rapidly increases, and is especially marked in the highlands of Asia Minor, as, for example, at Erzerum, where the temperature in January falls as low as -20° F. (-29° C.), and in summer may exceed 90° F. (31° C.). _Cyprus._--Long. 32° 20′ to 34° 35′ E; lat. 34° 33′ to 35° 41′ N. Our administrative connection with this island, and the circumstance that it has of late been strongly recommended as a fairly stimulating winter health resort for delicate people, and especially for cases of chest diseases and others, make it desirable to include an account of it within our list. The following are the principal climatic data:-- NIKOSIA, ON CENTRAL PLAIN.