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J. HOrXIIfSOX EErOET 0'!^ THE 



Table III. — Supplementary to Tables I and II. 



10. 



12. 

 13. 



station. 



Royston — Melbourne St. 



Baldock— Hitchin St 



Harpenden — Rothamsted 



CHpperfield 



Watford — Oaklands 



"Welwyn — Danesbuiy 



Bennington 



Obserrer. 



J. E.J.Phillips.. 



Dr. Langston Day 

 I Sir J. Lawes and| 

 (Sir H.Gilbert \ 



A. "W". Rivington. 



E. Harrison 



A. M. Blake 



Miss C. Nihill 



The average number of -wet days in each month was as follows : — 

 Jan., 18; Feb., 14; March, 20; April, 14; May, 10; June, 12; 

 July, 6; August, 17; Sept., 14; Oct., 11: Nov., 12; Dec, 18; 

 giving a total for the year of 166, 



The deviation from the mean for the 20 years 1870-89 was — 

 Jan., +3 ; Feb., = ; March, +7 ; April, +1 ; May, — 3 ; June, — 1 ; 

 July, — 8; August, +4; Sejit., +1; Oct., — 2; Nov., — 4; 

 Dec, +2. 



Bistrihution of Rainfall throngliout the County. — The following 

 table (Table IV) gives the mean fall in each month and for the 

 year in each of the five river- districts represented, and in the two 

 main hydrographical divisions of the county, the catchment-basins 

 of the Great Ouse and the Thames, and also the difference in the 

 year from the mean for the decade 1880-89. 



Table IY. — Eainpall in the River-districts. 



