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Farnborough, at the end of October. Mr. Watson’s record, com- 
mencing in April, 1899, is, I am happy to say, in the possession 
of your Committee; and efforts are being made to obtain a com- 
plete set of the records at Farnborough, which commenced in 
1896. A great loss has, however, been sustained at the beginning 
of this present year through the death of Mr. W. H. Tyndall, of 
Redhill, on January 13th, at the great age of ninety-one years. 
Through the courtesy of Mr. Tyndall, your Hon. Sec. was some 
time ago presented with a copy of his rainfall record at Redhill, 
commencing with January, 1867. 
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 number have 
from month to month been pulled for the use of the Society. 
These printed tables contain the records of all observers, with 
the exceptions already mentioned, reporting to the Committee. 
Appendix II. contains a record of all falls of rain of 1:00 in. 
and upwards, extracted from the monthly tables in Appendix I. 
In dealing with the rainfall records of this very remarkable wet 
year, it is extremely difficult to know where to begin, and it is, 
I fear, by no means impossible to forget some important feature. 
One of the great points to be remembered, as I mentioned in my 
presidential address last month, is, that we here, just south of 
the Thames, have had the largest year’s rainfall that has veen 
experienced in this district for a very great number of years. If 
we may take the long rainfall record of Greenwich, commencing 
in 1815, as a standard—though, by-the-by, the first 26 years are 
not considered very reliable, and have never yet been adequately 
discussed—there has been no such wet year since 1815, and it 
seems possible that the fall of 1903 has not been exceeded for 
quite a century. 
With reference to the number of days on which a fall of one 
inch and upward fell, we have no less than 28 such days, a 
number which has certainly not been exceeded since these ob- 
servations in the district have been started; but even more 
wonderful is the magnitude of the individual falls, and their 
widespread character. We have on May 30th two falls of over 
3 in., on June 10th one such fall, and on July 23rd two falls of 
over 4 in. and no less than seven falls between 3 and 4 in.; and 
with reference to their widespread character, I should like to 
mention that the fall on June 10th occurred at no less than 
56 stations, possibly more (for some of the gauges are monthly 
ones), out of 89; on July 28rd at 71 stations out of 88; on 
Aug. 11th at 41 stations out of 88; on Sept. 4th at 30 stations 
out of 88; and on Nov. 27th at 69 stations out of 87. Besides 
all this, some of the individual stations had no less than eight 
such falls—Denbies, Dorking, and Beddington Corner. 
