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from a gauge with a 5iii. square receiver and 8ft. from the 

 ground, now for four years, and heretofore I have found that 

 the night fall almost regularly exceeded the day fall during 

 the winter months. This year only two of those months 

 show an excess of night fall over the day. During last sum- 

 mer the excess of the day fall over that of the night affords 

 additional evidence of the cause of the cold wet summer we 

 experienced last year. The excess of the day fall over the 

 night, and that too chiefly in the spring and summer 

 months, was 4-136 inches. The greatest day falls occurred 

 in April and July. 



In the next table I present the average day and night 

 fall for four years. This table shows as previous ones have 

 done, that on an average the night fall exceeds that of the 

 day in the coldest months of the year -without exception. 

 There is another noticeable feature in this average result 

 that appeared in the three years' average, namely, that the 

 maximum of greatest night fall happens in February and 

 again in December. Curious enough, too, in both the three 

 and the four years' averages June and August have an excess 

 in the night rainfall. 



