BY H. T. MENNELL, F.L.S. 43 
Since the recent removal of the instruments belonging to the 
Ordnance Survey Department, I know of no record of the rain- 
fall kept at Newcastle. Surely this hiatus should be speedily 
filled. 
We have no station in the Tweed, none on the extreme west 
of either county, on the watershed of our rivers, and none near 
the mouth of the Tees, all localities of interest and importance 
from their position on our extreme frontiers, or from other 
causes. 
The tables of the rain-fall which are appended do not call for 
much remark. The quantity of rain was not equal to the aver- 
age; it was slightly less than that of the previous year, the 
average at 14 stations being 26°93 against 26-96in 1861. 
In 1861, November, February, and July, were, in the order 
named, the wettest months of the year; in 1862, August, March 
and June, had that distinction. In the former year May, in the 
latter September, was the driest month. 
In 1862, the fall in the wettest month (August 4°21 in.) 
did not equal that of the wettest month in 1861 (November, 
4-6 in.) The fall in the driest month of 1862 was not so small 
as that in the driest month of 1861, hence the range of variation 
in the monthly quantities was less, and the rain-fall was more 
evenly distributed. 
The climatological tables mentioned in the last report were 
largely distributed, but have not been so generally returned as 
could have been wished; it will no doubt require a year or two’s 
experience and attention before they become as useful as they 
might be. Even where they have not been kept with sufficient 
regularity to be returned, they may have led members to observe 
and note down facts occurring around them, which had hitherto 
passed unregarded. If they thus tend, in however small a degree, 
to recruit the ranks of our accurate and careful observers, they 
will have done the Club good service. 
Snow fell generally in our district in the second week in April. 
Thunderstorms were reported at nearly all our stations about the 
ninth of May; and again, accompanied with very heavy‘hailstorms, 
and much wind, in the early part of July. Mr. Graham reporis 
