'^etxtxxn^ of "giatttfaCf, &c., in ^oxsct 

 in 1903. 



By HENRY STORKS EATON 



(Fast President of the Royal Meteorological Society). 



|70]\IPLETE returns of daily rainfall have been 

 forwarded from 42 of the stations enumerated 



in Tables I. and II. and an abstract from 

 Bloxworth Rectory. The death of Mr. J. C. 

 Mansel-Pleydell, the lamented President of the 

 Dorset Field Club, has brought to a close the 

 record at Whatcombe. Mr. IMansel-Pleydell was 

 an observer of many years' standing. Unfortunately, a break in 

 the continuity of the observations at Whatcombe in 1873, and 

 shifting the position of the gauge in 1S90, detracts from the 

 value of what would have been a fine series of observations at 

 that place. In Portland the Rev. W. R. M. Waugh has moved 

 to a new station at Fortune's Well, about 100 feet above sea-level, 

 within a short distance of Chesil, in N. Latitude 50° 33' 40", W. 

 Longitude 2° 26' 30". This, though in a more open situation 

 than Chesil, does not seem to have a good exposure. There is 

 a great falling off in the rain collected. The results are, there- 

 fore, given in italics, and have been excluded in preparing 



