210 Rainfall Records for the Southern Counties. 



30 Heriot Row, Edinburgh, 

 30th Oct., 1907. 

 Dear Mr Andenson, — 



In reply to your letter of to-day, the 

 arms on the photo are apparently those of some member of the 

 clan Chattan, the conjunction of the galley, the hand holding a 

 dagger, and the cross crosslet clearly points to this. But what 

 particular branch of that large clan they indicate is not so easy 

 to say. I should suggest either Macpherson or Gillespie. 

 Though I don't know what connection they had with Kirkconnel. 

 The galley, cross crosslet, and hand with dagger are found in the 

 arms of many west country families like Macdonalds, Macleans, 

 etc., but the precise arrangement shown in this photo is, I believe, 

 Clan Chattan only. 



A very nice stone indeed. From the shape of the shield I 

 should say its date was somewhere about 1550. 

 Yours sincerely, 



(Signed) J. Balfour Paul. 



Rainfall Records for the Southern Counties 

 for the Year 1909. 



The following table of rainfall returns for 1909 for places in 

 the three Southern Counties has been compiled by Mr Andrew 

 Watt, Secretary to the Scottish Meteorological Society. It 

 embraces all known records for the South of Scotland, and Mr 

 Watt invites correspondence, directed to 122 George Street, 

 Edinburgh, as to any records which may have been overlooked. 



White of Selborne held that " the weather of a district is 

 undoubtedly part of its natural history," and the collection ard 

 publication of rainfall statistics is quite a proper object for tiie 

 enterprise of a local Scientific Society. It is perhaps putting 

 it too strongly to say that rainfall registration should be a paro- 

 chial matter, and that each parish should have its rain-guage ; but 

 it is well-known that the distribution of rainfall varies greatly with 

 topographical conditions — compare, for example, the rainfall at 

 Cargen, with its closer proximity to Criffel and the Galloway 

 Hills, with that at Dumfries. If the places enumerated in the 

 table be marked on a map it will be found that some districts 



