8 Mr. F. Campbell-Bayard’s Report of the 
145.—Report or THE MeteorotocicaAL CommitTer ror 1899. 
Prepared by the Hon. Sec., Francis Campsetu-Bayarp, 
F.R.Met.Soe. 
(Read 20th February, 1900.) 
Tue arrangements under which the daily rainfall of the district 
around Croydon has been observed and tabulated have been 
carried out with, it is hoped, the same efficiency as in previous 
years. The number of stations in the printed sheet is 85, an 
increase of five over the year 1898, and there is one station (the 
Sewage Farm, Carshalton) not in the printed list, the observations 
of which are quite complete, and will be found at the end of this 
Report. 
It is with very great regret that the Sub-Committee have to 
announce the discontinuance of five stations at the end of the 
year. Three of these stations have come to an end owing to the 
death of the observers—viz. Reigate which has been in existence 
for five years, Coulsdon with a record of ten years, and Sydenham 
with a record of three years. The other two stations, viz. Thornton 
Heath with a record of eight years, and Richmond with a record 
of twenty-eight years, have come to an end owing to the discon- 
tinuance of the observations, in the first case due to old age, and 
in the second to the removal of the observer. The loss of two 
of these stations, viz. Coulsdon and Richmond, is much to be 
deplored, owing to the great difficulty of finding new observers 
in these neighbourhoods, Two other observers have also died 
during the year, viz. Lord Farrer and Sir J. F. Lennard, Bart., 
but, so far as is at present known, the records will be continued. 
The Sub-Committee consider that it would be a very graceful 
act on the part of the Club if a vote of condolence and thanks 
was passed to the families of the deceased observers, and to the 
two gentlemen who have discontinued their observations, for the 
great services rendered to the Club in the past. 
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. 
These printed tables contain the records of all observers, with 
the exception of the observer at Carshalton, reporting to the 
Sub-Committee, and it will be observed that the records are 83 
in number, and that all, with the exception of two, are complete 
to the end of the year. The number of observers whose records 
are printed is 65, as against 64 in 1898. 
Appendix II. contains a record of all falls of rain of 1-00 in. 
and upwards, extracted from the monthly tables in Appendix I. 
It will be noticed that there is only one fall over 2:00 in., and 
