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13. — Report on the Rainfall in Hertfoedshire in 1877. 



By JoHX HoPKiNsoN, F.L.S., F.M.S., Hon. Sec. 



[Read 9th May, 1878.] 



The Report on the Rainfall in 1876, recently published in our 

 'Transactions' (Yol. I, p. 225), comprised the records of 23 rain 

 gauges from returns received from 22 observers. For last year 

 returns have been received from 26 observers. From two of the 

 1876 observers — one at Watford and the other at Berkhampstead — 

 returns for 1877 have not been received, but as we have live other 

 observers at Watford, and one at Berkhampstead, the omission of 

 these from the present report is not of much consequence. The 

 six returns now received for the first time are all fi'om localities 

 not before represented, and therefore add materially to our means 

 for determining the distribution of rain over the county. 



Particulars of the gauges, with the names of the observers, are 

 given in the following table : — 



* Eeceiving area j^'trir oi an acre. 



