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between the midwinter reading in January and the final one. 

 These were computed by adding to the partial record an amount 

 proportional to the average amount received during the second 

 half of the season by those from which complete records were 

 obtained. On October 27 and 31, 1914, gauges were set out at 

 practically the same series of stations as the year before, and 

 at a number of additional ones, including the summit of Black 



Fig. 2. Rain gauge in place at top of coastal bluff 



Mountain and the hamlet of Bellvale. These were taken in 

 June 28 and July 28, 1915. Several others, placed at various 

 strategic points, disappeared during the winter. In the table I 

 have added figures from the United States Weather Bureau 

 reports, obtained during the same two seasons at nine stations 

 which are useful in supplementing the results personally secured. 

 From table 1, in which the results of the rainfall observations 

 are summarized, the following conclusions have been drawn. 



