Beginning with this report, a different compiler will be responsible for each seasonal record in The Loon. After seven years Ronald L. Huber has "retired" from the task of doing all of the seasons. Certainly the first order of business here is a hearty THANK YOU to Ron. The challenge of the job will become apparent to those who work with the statistics, its magnitude by that fact that it will take four of us to replace Ron! Minnesota weather in August was generally cool, and rainy in several areas of the state. The northwestern part received twice as much rain as usual, delaying the harvest in some sections until mid-November. Duluth had a record low temperature for August, 35 o on August 27th. September and October were wet all across the state, the wettest on record for some parts of it, especially in the southwest and south-central. After all of that rain a warm, dry November was appreciated, with rainfall in mostly less than half normal amounts. Duluth was again singled out for noteworthy weatherthis time a 16-inch snowfall on November 12th. The rest of us caught up later in the year.

There were 55 reporters for the fall season, and they tallied 262 species.

The general arrangement of each citation below is date, place, number if it seemed significant or interesting, and observer. The place is the county, with a more specific location in parentheses in many instances. An exception to this latter is Duluth, which had many reports.

Also with regard to Duluth it should be noted that the records for the hawk count by MC were seconded by Dr. P. B. Hofslund.