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31. — Report os the Eatntall in HEETFOEDSHrEE iif 1876. 



By John Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.M.S., Hon. Sec. 



[Head 12th April, 1877.] 



Ix Part 4 of our 'Transactions ' (p. 112) will be found a sum- 

 mary of reports of the rainfall in 1875, which had been communi- 

 cated quarterly at our meetings. These quarterly reports were 

 compiled from the returns of five observers, and if it had not been 

 thought desirable to solicit the co-operation of a greater number of 

 observers in the county, there would have been little difficulty in 

 continuing the system of quarterly reports. 



Feeling, however, that it would be desirable to obtain as many 

 records of the rainfall as possible, I obtained the permission of our 

 Hon. Member, Mr. Gr. J. Symons, to publish in our ' Transactions ' 

 returns from the observers the results of whose observations are 

 published by him in his ' British Eainfall ' ; the quarterly reports 

 were discontinued ; and I wi'ote to all his observers in the county, 

 whom I here desire to thank for their ready response to my request 

 for their returns of the rainfall. 



The returns which have been received comprise the records of 

 23 rain gauges, as given in the following table : — 



* This gauge has a receiving area of tttdtj of an acre. 



