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19.—Rerort or tHE MerroronocicaL Commitresr, 1904. 
Prepared by the Hon. Sec., Francis Camppe.u-Bayarp, 
F.R. Met. Soc. 
(Read February 21st, 1905). 
Tur same arrangements under which the daily rainfall of the 
district round Croydon has been observed and tabulated have been 
continued throughout the year 1904. The number of stations in 
the printed list is 97, and there are four additional stations— 
viz. Camberwell Cemetery, Forest Hill; Camberwell Green; 
Camberwell Town Hall; and Leyton Square, Camberwell—the 
records of which are complete, with the exception of a very few 
days which have been interpolated, for the whole year, and which 
will be found at the end of this Report. These 101 stations are 
under the superintendence of 77 observers. Two changes have 
occurred: Mr. Grant removed from Harp’s Oak Cottage, Merst- 
ham, to Hale Edge, South Nutfield, at the end of March; and 
Mr. Jordan ceased observing at Woodfield Avenue, Streatham, at 
the same time. It is a pleasure for the Committee to be, able to 
inform the members that a new station at Streatham has been 
established at ‘‘The Pumping Station” by Mr. J. W. Restler, 
the engineer of the Southwark and Vauxhall District of the 
Metropolitan Water Board, to whom the Committee are greatly 
indebted for some valuable records. The observations at Farning- 
ham Hill have been temporarily interrupted, owing to illness in 
Mr. Waring’s* family. Mr. J. K. Clark is leaving Ashburton 
Road, Croydon, and has already established a new station at 
Purley; and Mr. Spencer C. Russell has established a new 
station at Epsom, a place not represented in the printed return ; 
and Mr. W. Oxtoby has also established a new station at Grove 
Vale, East Dulwich, a place not hitherto represented. These 
additional returns will involve a slight extra cost in printing for 
the Society, which it is hoped will not be objected to, seeing that 
there is no similar publication in the United Kingdom or, I 
believe, elsewhere in the world. 
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. 
The rainfall of the district for the year is very different to that 
