HENRY STORKS EATON, M.A. CV11. 



the report ; and, though this strictness sometimes lost him an 

 observer, he preferred the loss to any uncertainty. In ordinary 

 editing he was most particular, and, as he had an extraordinary 

 faculty for detecting mistakes or omissions, it would be difficult 

 to find even a small fault in any printing which had passed 

 through his hands. During these ten years, in addition to the 

 annual reports, he published in the Club's " Proceedings " 

 "Dorset Annual Rainfall, 1848-92," with two maps (Vol. XVI., 

 p. 17), " Dorset Monthly Rainfall, 1856-95 " (Vol. XVIII., p. 153), 

 and " Rainfall Constants at 1 04 stations in Dorset, deduced from 

 Observations taken between 1848 and 1897" (Vol. XX., p. 94), 

 all papers based on most elaborate and extensive calculations 

 from the records during those periods, which took him years to 

 work out. Large copies of the maps, showing the average 

 rainfall during 44 years for 75 Dorset stations, together with 

 other details, were presented by him, amongst numerous other 

 gifts, to the Dorset County Museum, of which he was a Member 

 of the Council. He was most generous to the Club, and always 

 himself bore the expense of printing his papers and maps. 

 Whilst his health permitted he was a frequent attendant at the 

 Club's meetings. 



For most of the following information the writer is indebted 

 to the Rev. Alfred E. Eaton and, in a less degree, to the notice 

 in the journal of the R. Meteorological Society : 



Henry Storks Eaton was born at Little Bridy, Dorset, on the 30th of October, 

 1834, and went to school at Somerton and afterwards Dorchester Grammar 

 School. Matriculating at Trinity College, Cambridge, in October, 1854, he took 

 his B.A. degree in 1857 and M.A. in 1860. 



From childhood he displayed keen interest in meteorological events, and almost 

 to the end of his life he could recall to mind in rather full detail the changes of 

 weather on particular dates fifty or sixty years gone by. Entries of barometrical 

 readings figure in a diary kept by him in the summer of 1852, but his readings of 

 the thermometer range from January, 1841, onwards. 



The autumn of 1852 was exceedingly wet. He notes in November the outburst 

 of springs in the Winterbourne and Bridy valleys after an interval of drought (in 

 some cases) of 25 years. One of these broke out at Higher Kingston, and the 

 stream from it, running along the turnpike road to Winterboume Abbas, was 

 judged to be equal in volume at Well Bottom Plantation to the Frorne at Gray's 



