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applies to the kingdom as a whole, but it would seem from this 
letter that this does not apply to London. Of course Dr. Mill 
had not access to the complete records of your Meteorological 
Committee, as the December sheet is not yet in the printer's 
hands. As you know,-your organization takes in the whole of 
South London, also a large part of the surrounding country 
south of the Thames, and from these records we have for 1903 
the greatest amount, 50-04 in., at Denbies, Dorking, where the 
mouth of the gauge is 6 in. above the ground, and the height of 
the station 610 ft. above O.D., and the least amount 26°13 in. at 
the Town Hall, Anerley, where the gauge is 40 ft. above the 
ground on the roof of the building, and the height of the station 
191 ft. above O.D., which would appear from the experiments 
of Prof. Phillips, F.R.S. (see ‘ British Rainfall,’ 1880, p. 19) to 
be equivalent to 82°66 in. at ground level, an amount which 
would leave Battersea as the lowest, with a record of 30°65 in. 
In his letter Dr. Mill estimates the rainfall for the whole of 
London as about 87 in., which is the average volume of rain and 
half as much again. With the view of seeing what was the 
excess of the fall of 1908 over the 10 years’ average, 1891-1900, 
which, by-the-by, was a dry period, I have compared them, and 
find that the greatest excess occurred at Leatherhead, which had 
45°97 in., an excess of 20°74 in. above the average; and that 
the least was at New Malden, which had 80°87 in., an excess of 
9:82 in. One of the great features of the rainfall was the very 
large number of days on which the fall was over one inch, there 
being at Dorking alone nine of such falls. 
With reference to the total rainfall for 1903, it seems probable, 
if we may take the observations at Greenwich for a guide, that 
there has been no such fall for probably over one hundred years. 
The total fall of rain at Greenwich for 1903 is 35-54 in., and 
with reference to this I should now like to include a copy of a 
letter which I wrote to the Astronomer Royal on Dec. 9th, 19038, 
and the answer of Mr. Nash written by his order. 
Cotswold, Wallington, Surrey, 
9th Dec., 1903. 
My Dear Sir, * 
You have for many years past very kindly sent me the rain- 
fall returns of the Observatory for publication in the ‘‘ Daily Rainfall” 
sheet of the Croydon Natural History Society. Having regard to this 
extraordinary wet year of 1903, I am emboldened to make a request, 
which I trust that you may see your way to grant. The present year’s 
rainfall for the eleven months totals up to 34°27 in., which exceeds the 
year’s total of 1852, which is 34:01 in., this year being previously the 
highest since 1841. In the Proceedings of the Meteorological Society, 
vol. 5, p. 87, there is a paper giving the daily rainfall from 1815 to 
