50 F. Campbell-Bayard’s Report of the 
With reference to the rainfall of 1903, I have prepared Table I. 
This table consists of 44 stations from amongst the 48 whose 
averages for the ten years are given in the Report for 1900, the 
stations for which the individual records are not the same being 
marked with a *. If we examine this table carefully, we shall 
see that, with two exceptions, viz. Caterham and Sevenoaks, the 
rainfall of January was above the average; that it was below the 
average in February, except at Knockholt, Dorking, Addington 
(Pumping Station), Farningham Hill, Addington (Park Farm), 
and Leatherhead; that in March, April, May, June, July, and 
August it was above the average at every station; that in Sep- 
tember it was above the average, except at Addington Hills, 
Addington (Pumping Station), and Addington (Park Farm) ; 
that in October it was above the average at every station; that 
it was below the average in November at every station, and like- 
wise also in December, with the single exception of Banstead ; 
and, on the year’s average, that it was above at every station. 
The month of June is the most remarkable of these months; 
there the excess varied from 6°45 in. at Brimstone Barn, Croy- 
don, to 8:12 in. at Sevenoaks; then would appear to come July, 
with an excess of 4:46 in. at Sidcup to 1°19 in. at Redhill; and 
after that May, with an excess from 3°94 in. at Wallington to 
0°62 in. at Orpington. The excess on the year’s average varied 
from 20°74 in. at Leatherhead and 20:02 in. at Dorking to 
9°82 in. at New Malden and 10°98 in. at Nunhead. 
That the year has been an extremely wet one has already been 
shown by the amount of rain, but it can also be demonstrated in 
another way by comparing the number of rainy days with the 
average of the ten years 1891-1900. For this purpose I have 
prepared Table II. from my own observations at Wallington, and 
Table III. from the Greenwich observations. 
TABLE II. 
Numper or Rarny Days at Watuinctron, SuRREY. 
Average of Jan. Feb. Mar|Apr. May/Jun. July Aug. |Sep. Oct.|Nov. Dec.| Year. 
10 years | 
1891-1900) 18 | 14 | 13 
12 16 | 16 | 17 | 164 
15 | 25 | 20 13 | 193 
11 | 11 | 11 | 10) 15 
1903 ....| 17 | 12 | 19 | 12 | 14 13 | 14 | 19 
TABLE III. 
Numper or Rainy Days at GREENWwicH OBsERVATORY, Kent. 
Average of | Jan.|Feb.|Mar. July|Aug.|Sep. Oct.|Nov. Dec.| Year. 
Apr. May|Jun. 
10 years —. a 
1891-1900} 16 | 12 | 14 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 12 |. 15 | 12 | 16 | 15 | 16 | 163 
1903 .... | 16>) 11 18 | 12 | 16 | 11 | 13 | 18 | 16 | 27 | 15 | 11 | 184 
