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COYPU AT MINSMERE COMPARISON
IN
WEIGHTS
OF
COYPUS
TRAPPED
AT
MLNSMERE
IN MILD WEATHER AND IN PROLONGED, SEVERE FROST.
October,
Body length (inches)
14 15 15| 16 17 20 20i 21 24
1962
Weight (Ibs.) av.
max.
min.
21 2i
2i
21
4
3
H 4i 5 14 11* 11 121
January,
No. in sample
2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1
Weight (Ibs.) av.
max.
min.
4* H 4+ 6 5* 12 m 13 17
5
4 2f 3 44 4 10 10 11
6 n 8 14 13 15
1 63 No. in sample
3 4 5 12 9 12 7 15 1
Only a small sample of comparable body-lengths was available from those trapped in October. $ $ in advanced pregnancy have been omitted.
THE GREAT FREEZE by
G.
E.
CURTIS
THE winter of 1962-63 was one of the most severe in living memory and therefore might be considered to be worthy of record in our Transactions. The figures from which the following temperature graphs were made were kindly supplied by Lord Stradbroke and were recorded at the Henham Estate, Wangford, Beccles. Maximum temperature was taken at 6.0 p.m. and minimum at 7.00 a.m. each day and represents the highest and lowest temperature reached for the previous twenty-four hours. The thermometer was not screened and was suspended about four foot from the ground on a north-facing wall. The recording Station stands about fifty foot above sea level.
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THE GREAT FREEZE
TEMPERATURES—HENHAM,
SUFFOLK
•
Minimum
•
• Maximum
F
J'o
4-0
r''
1
•
JO
23
2<f
2&
2?
DECEMBER,
2S
Ja
Jl
/
2
1962
J
J
JANUARY,
JANUARY,
1963
1963
7
9
THE GREAT FREEZE
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TEMPERATURES—HENHAM, •
SUFFOLK
Minimum
•
•
Maximum
C °
JANUARY, 1963
FEBRUARY, 1963
C°
-
•
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/
*/«
•—
•
\
/ - I i i -
FEBRUARY, 1963
MARCH, 1963