294 Mr. F. Campbell-Bayard’s Report of the 
143.—Report or THE MergorotocicaL Sus-CommittEE For 1898. 
Prepared by the Hon. Sec., Francis Camppuni-Bayarp, 
P.R. Met. Soc. 
(Read February 15th, 1899.) 
Tux arrangements for observing the daily rainfall round 
Croydon have been successfully carried out on the same plan as 
before, and with, it is hoped, the same efficiency. The number 
of stations in the printed sheet is 78, a decrease of three on the 
preceding year, and there are three stations (Dulwich Wood 
Park, Upper Norwood, Feniton, Farnborough, and The Tower, 
Knockholt) not in the printed sheet, the observations of which 
are quite complete, and will be found at the end of this Report. 
Two stations, the Hermitage, Walton Heath, and The Cottage, 
Kenley, have come to an end owing to the discontinuance of the 
observations, and one, Mulgrave Road, Sutton, through the 
death of the observer, Mr. William Goode. The loss of this 
latter station is especially to be regretted, for it had been in 
successful operation for twenty-one and a half years. It is, 
however, a great matter for congratulation that the rainfall 
records of this station are in the possession of the Hon. Sec. 
The vacancies caused by these losses have, however, been filled 
up by the accession of new observers. 
The monthly sheets contain all the records, with the exception 
of Upper Norwood, Farnborough, and The Tower, Knockholt, 
which have been received by the Sub-Committee, and the stations, 
of which the records have been tabulated and printed, number 
78 as against 81 in 1897, but the same as in 1896, and the 
number of observers is 64 as compared with 68 in 1897 and 66 
in 1896. 
Appendix I. to this Report contains a list of the observers, 
with particulars relating to the stations and gauges, and also 
the monthly tables of daily rainfall, of which a sufficient num- 
ber have from time to time been pulled for the use of the 
Club; and Appendix II. contains a record of all falls of rain 
of 1:00 in. and upwards, extracted from the monthly tables in 
Appendix I. 
This year has been one of very short rainfall, there having 
been at Greenwich only four months with a rainfall above the 
average, all the other months being months of very small rain- 
fall. The records of Greenwich, commencing in 1816; at Mt. 
Ararat, Wimbledon, commencing in 1854; at Surbiton, com- 
mencing in 1855; and at Redhill, commencing in 1867, have 
been carefully examined, and all years with a smaller annual 
