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METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. 



Appended are the customary statistical statements of weather 

 conditions in Brighton for 1897-98. In the two tables the 

 monthly weather is contrasted with the average conditions of the 

 twenty preceding years, and with the corresponding weather in 

 Crowborough. The data for the latter information are derived 

 from Mr. H. Prince's valuable observations. 



The chief feature of the year's weather has been the 

 continuance of a very deficient rainfall. This was most marked 

 during the first four months of 1898. The total rainfall of the 

 six months (October and March inclusive) was only 8'2 inches, 

 as compared with an average of 21*1 inches in the twenty-one 

 years, 1877-98. The nearest approach to the deficient rainfall 

 in the six winter months of 1897-98, was in 1879-80, when the 

 amount was 9"5 inches. 



ARTHUR NEWSHOLME. 



