HENRY STORKS EATON, M.A. 



(Past President of the Royal Meteorological Soc., V.P. Dorset 

 Field Club). 



Through the lamented death of Mr. Henry Storks Eaton the 

 Club has lost a Vice-President and one of its most valued 

 Members. The hobby of his life was meteorology, more 

 especially rainfall, and in his knowledge of that branch of 

 science he was probably unequalled. 



He joined the Club in 1891, and though, having no settled 

 residence, he was not himself an observer, he took the keenest 

 interest in all that related to Dorset rainfall, and in 1895, at the 

 request of the writer of this notice, succeeded him in being 

 responsible for the annual Rainfall Report published in the 

 " Proceedings " of the Club. To this Mr. Eaton devoted much 

 time and energy, continuing his duties long after his health 

 began to fail him, until he was at last compelled in 1904, after 

 ten years' work, to resign his post to the present holder, Mr. H. 

 Stilwell. But Mr. Eaton did not confine himself to writing the 

 report. He visited the various rain gauges in the county at 

 intervals, and saw for himself that they were in good condition 

 and suitably placed, and, if he suspected an error in any return 

 (and it is an unfortunate fact that they were by no means 

 infrequent), he never rested until he had discovered both the 

 error and its cause. Unless he was successful in this quest and 

 could correct it to his satisfaction, the return was excluded from 



