118 Mr. F. Campbell-Bayard’s Report of the 
of the previous year, 1903, in which we had an excess of rain 
varying from 20:74 in. at Leatherhead to 9°82 in. at New Malden. 
In this year, by way of contrast, we have a deficiency at every 
station, with the exception of Knockholt, which has an excess of 
0:21 in., which varies from 5°28 in. at Raynes Park to 0°34 in. 
at South Norwood. 
With respect to this year’s rainfall, I have prepared Table L., 
which consists of 48 stations from amongst the 48 whose averages 
for the ten years 1891-1900 are given in the Meteorological Sub- 
Committee’s Report for 1900, the stations for which the individual 
records are not the same being marked with a *. On looking at 
this table and comparing it with a similar table in the Report 
for 1903, we note the very large excess of rain in January and 
February, which for January varied from 3-05 in. at Addington 
Park Farm to 0:16 in. at Battersea Waterworks, and for February 
from 1:89 in. at Dorking to 0°35 in. at New Malden, as against 
in January, 1908, 0°86 in. at Addington Park Farm to 0:00 in. 
at Caterham ; and in February, 1903, of +0:29 in. at Knockholt 
to —0°68 in. at Raynes Park. In March, with the exception of 
3 stations at which there were small excesses—viz. Leatherhead, 
Esher, and Wilmington—there was a deficiency which varied 
from —0°70 in. at Knockholt to —0°01 in. at South Norwood. 
In April the deficiency was much smaller than in March, and 
there were 16 stations showing an excess. May had an excess 
at every station which varied from 1:37 in. at Richmond to 
0°35 in. at Battersea Waterworks. June has a deficiency at 
every station, varying from 1°36 in. at Esher to 0-46 in. at 
Oxshott. July also has a deficiency at every station except four 
—viz. Nunhead, Sidcup, Greenwich, and Deptford, which have 
very small excesses—varying from 1-61 in. at Reigate Hill to 
0-04 in. at Richmond. August, September—with the single 
exception of Knockholt, which has the slight excess of 0-01 in.— 
October and November have considerable deficiencies, especially 
October, where the deficiency value is over an inch at every 
station, with the single exception of Wilmington, where it is 
0°75 in. December is a month of somewhat variable conditions, 
18 stations having an excess; the values range from +0-91 in. | 
at Knockholt to —0°44 in. at Raynes Park. 
That the year has been a dry one as a whole has been shown 
by Table I.; but that there should be a very large number of 
rainy days—in fact, nearly as many as the extremely wet year of 
1903—will probably come as a great surprise. For this purpose 
Tables IL, III., and IV.—giving the number of rainy days at 
Wallington, Greenwich, and Reigate Hill, as compared with the 
average 1891-1900—have been constructed. 
