13 



May 1.-, Stream had dropped back half-way to Kenfield ; it appeared to drain away 

 through holes in the bottom of ditch. 

 „ 27 Still flowing past Swarling 



, . ,^K *,*?* *°'* °^ ■''^y "^« ^°''' ""' °^ Marbfe Pond had ceased, but by the end of Auenst it was still 

 fairly full. It was dry on September 8. 



,„..''"'"' stream above Petham was flowing from a field 200 yards south of Duckpits farm on March 

 20th and eventually reached Marble Pond, but it ceased at Duck Pits between May -Ith and loth 



It IS a cunous fact that this stream has never been able to get beyond the pond in the meadow 

 at Ferry smce the deep weU at the Asylum was dug. Local observers have noticed that when the pond 

 has been full and the air calm, a faint ripple could be seen on the surface of the water at every stroke, 

 when the pumps were working. 



THE DRILLINQORE NAILBOURNE, IN THE ALKH.AVl VALLEY, DOVER. 



Tli's Nailbourne rises in a very large hollow in the valley at Drillingore Farm, near South 

 Alkham, and in the flood time it forms a lake large enough to float a Channel steamer, over 2(X) vards 

 long by 10 yards wide. ' 



In 190U, I paid my first visit to it on Decomber 30th and found it about at its hei.'ht. I was 

 informed that it started on the 26th and it was within a mile of Kearsney on the 28th 



I visited it again on January 10th, 1910, and above Alkham saw it running over gardens floodino' 

 fields and obstructiog traffic in the roads. On February 3rd 1 paid it another visit, and found iti 

 volume stiU more increased, and on March 3rd not much falling off could be noticed, but the life of 

 this stream is always a short and merry one, and on April 16th it came to an end 



W. H. HAMMOND, 



from notes supplied hy F. SNELL. 



QEOLOQICAL N0TE3. 



A great fall of the cliff took place on November 12th, 1910, on the East side of St. Margaret's Bay 

 The mass of chalk e.ttends about 300 feet out to sea, and is about 200 feet in ividth. As on former 

 occasions, the cloud of chalk dust was a remarkable sifht. 



On January 28th 1911, another fall of the cliff to5k place to the East of Dover, between CornhUl 

 audi an Bay. The cliff here is about 330 feet high. 



J. GORDON McDAKlN. 



SALT RAINS. 



In December 11th. 1910. we had a. v 

 night 



On December Uth, 1910, we had a very heavy gale from the S.E. with a deluge of rain in the 

 It : on the following day I noticed that all my windows which faced S.E. had quite a frosted 



?haf It Z*/* !? /^- ^ ^"'^Pf^;'"^^ °f «>« substance off, dissolved it in distilled water, and proved 

 that It consisted of common salt by means of nitrate of silver 



the ^vZl^i"^'^ "' ^^1""^ ^^^r^' f"""" ^'""'^ "S"' ^ ''^'"'^ 't "'^ '° t"^* SO's, I recollect on one occasion 

 ^n the Dane t^hV^ '?^^'' "'"^ ?^' ''l^'' " S^'*'' ^'^'' "-^^P"^'"^ "^^Dakin tells me that when he lived 

 voun^ Wv^/.^^f about the same time he experienced a salt gale .• this was in May, and it made, the 

 young leaves look as if they had been scorched by fire 

 Pr^fL^^^l™ "■"™'"^"' '°/*'l "l'«° I ^'■'is student at the Royal Agricultural CoUege. Cirencester 



CraZl wiL [oad^i wfth 'Jh''' It- '^"° 7f'^ ?"* ',? ^ "'^'^ ="'« ""^y^'^-^ ">« direction ol the Bristol 

 cnannel, was loaded with salt— this must have traveUed about sixty miles. 



W. H. HAMMOND. 



METEOROLOGICAL NOTES FOR 1910. 



The year 1910 was breezy, dull and wet. On January 11 the wind at Dover reached a velocity of 

 1^ T,',nhridL Well *\^7\"'!^ unusnaUy quiet and dry. July and November were extremdy cold 

 At Tunbridge Wells, July being 4 degrees and November 5 degrees below the average these Lures 

 being almost a record. October and December unusuaUy warm. November o-19 inches of litrafc 

 Tenterden, wettest ^November since 1877 except 19nB. Snow all day at Canterbury November r7 and 

 the temperature on the grass fell U degrees below freezing. .Man/sharp -round frosts during WU 

 and May, ruining the frmt crop. As much as 7 degrees ot' frost on grass^at Tenterden as late fs May 

 10. On December 14 the rain was so charged with salt that if iJft „„ ■ "''""'? '^°""^='"> '"ay 

 greenhouses, etc. A note on this by Mr. ^ H Hamrond a'p^Uis abovT "'=™^*''"- "« -" - *»>- 



We have during the year made a standard electric clock and fixed it in a c -ol underc^round 

 cellar from which we work by electricity the clocks in the various recording instruments so that thev 

 are a 1 synchronised and keep exact time, which is maintained by the wireless t^mTsi^'nal from the 

 affel Tower at Pans, thus recording the exact time of any special rainfall or barometer movement" 



I am much indebted to the observers who have so kindly sent me their reports 

 Medical Hall, Canterbury. ^ LANDER, F.R.MetS. 



