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*#F Campbell-Bayard, Esq., F.R.Met.Soc., 
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cussing the results for these earlier years, with a view of forming a 
complete table for the period 1815-1903, for presentation to the Royal 
Meteorological Society. : 
I am, dear Mr. Bayard, 
Yours faithfully, 
W. C. Nasu, 
For the Astronomer Royal. 
F’, Campbell-Bayard, Esq. 
This answer from the Astronomer Royal is, I feel sure that 
you will agree with me, the more gratifying because it is unex- 
pected. Itis an instance of the esteem in which our Society is 
held, that the oldest observatory in the kingdom should be willing 
to undertake a long and laborious work of examining, tabulating, 
and discussing the rainfall returns from 1815 to 1840 under, as 
you see from the letters, circumstances of peculiar difficulty. 
There is luckily a journal by Mr. Belville, who was during these 
earlier years an assistant at the Observatory, extant, and this has 
been lent by the Royal Meteorological Society to the Astronomer 
Royal for the purpose of affording any help that it is capable of 
rendering to the investigation. 
The only other piece of information that I have to give is a 
letter from the Clerk of the London County Council in answer to 
one of my own. I do not think that it is necessary to include a 
copy of my own letter, for Mr. Gomme’s letter sufficiently 
explains itself :— 
County Hall, Spring Gardens, S.W., 
23rd December, 1903. 
Stir, 
; With reference to your letter of 27th ultimo, addressed to the 
Chief Officer of the Council’s Parks Department, asking that the 
Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society may be supplied with 
_ the rainfall returns from the Council’s parks south of the Thames, 
for the purpose of including them in the monthly return issued by the 
Society, I have the pleasure to inform you that instructions have been 
given for the returns from Battersea, Brockwell, and Southwark Parks, 
and Telegraph Hill to be forwarded to you monthly. The parks 
mentioned are the only parks south of the Thames where records of 
rainfall are kept. 
The Council will be pleased to receive the monthly return issued by 
the Society, which you have kindly expressed your willingness to 
Supply. 
I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, 
G. L. Gomme, 
Clerk of the Council. 
Cotswold, Wallington, Surrey. 
This letter, as you will agree with me, is as cordial as it is 
gratifying. It is but one of many instances which go to show 
