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 BALANCE SHEET — September 30th, 1904, to September 30th, 1905. 



METEOROLOGICAL NOTES FOR THE YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1905. 



The past year, as anticipated in my last rep'>rt, was about an average one, not so warm and fine 

 as 19Ui, but on the other hand not nearly so wet and cold as 1903. March and June were v^ry wet. 

 At lenterden, with a fall of 526 inches, it was by far the wettest June for forty-five years. January, 

 February, and July were very deficient in rainfall. None of tbem were cold months, though the first 

 wetk of January was extremely cold, the temperature on the grass falling to 'A-S° at Tuabridge Wells 

 and 6 0* at Canterbury. 



Severe storms were experienced in January and February. March was warm and pleasant, except 

 for a very wtt period frum the Hth to 17ih. April was c*tld, dull, and rather wet. May was dry atter 

 the first week, but a severe frost on the 23rd caused much damage. It was the sunniest month of the 

 whole year, forming, in fact, almost a record in sunshine for the month of May, so that we reproduce 

 our Dawson-Lander record of sunshine at Cauterbuiy foi this month (see photo). 



June bad less sunshine and much more rain than even the June of 1903. We reproduce our 

 record of rainfall for June 5tb, from which it will hs seen that over 2 inches of rain fell in eighteen 

 hours, nearly I5 inches falling in less than three hours— 4 liO to 7 30 p.m. (set? photo). 



August was rather cold, and the end of Aufjust and the beginning of September very wet. 



The barometer was unusually high at the end of January, at 2 a.m. on January 29 the highest 

 point recorded waa 3090. Our recording glycerine barometer has proved so satisfactory that we 

 reproduce a few of its records (see photo). A. Apnl 19-20. Barometer quite steady shnwiog in a 

 remarkable way thediurnal movement. H. June 30 to July 1. Barometer very unsteady, culmirating 

 in a thunder storm with very rapid fall and sharp rise. We have always noticed that the storm 

 begins with the rise of barometer and not with the fait as one io usually led to exppct. (J. July 4 

 and o. Very unsteady barometer. These records will give some idea of the stnsitivenefs ot the 

 glycerine barometer and we think these records can hardly be equalled by any aneroid or mercurial 

 b.irometer in the kingdom. 



We are glad to be again able to report great progress in the perfecting of our new meteorological 

 instruments. These were shuwn ac a large exhibiiion of the Koyal Meteorological Society in March 

 and also at the British ()ptical Convention in June. We have secured large Government orders for 

 some of the Colonies, where we hope our instiuments will be the accepted standards. We regret the 

 officials in the British Isles have not yet advanced in this direction as far as some of tho?e in our 

 Colonies, but we have secured many orders in this country and the instruments have given great 

 satisfaction. The rain gauge is now especially perfect and duiing the coming year we hf'pe to have 

 encouraging official reports in this country. At Canterbury the instruments are now driven electric- 

 ally from one standard clock in the centre of th^ building. This ensures that the time scales on our 

 charts are all equally correct- and this greatly f^icilitates a comparison of the various records. The 

 standard cluck is corrected astronomically from day to day by moans of a small transit t«-lescope. 

 Iaconclusion,we thank the observers whose names appear in the tables for kindly sending their reports- 

 The Medical Hall, Canterbury. ARTHUR LANDER. 



