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fifteen years, it was found necessary to adopt, as a standard of comparison, 
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the fall during the ten years, 1850 to 1859. 
The fall during this period appears from Table II. to be very suitable for 
the purpose, as the amount during it was generally within 5 per cent. of 
the average fall during the last fifty years. 
Tables III. and IV. give the results obtained by comparing the fall in 
1860 and 1861 with this standard, and show (1) that at almost every 
station the fall in the two years was greater than the average, (2) that the 
excess was slight in Mid-England, larger in the South-west of England, the 
South-west of Scotland, the West of Ireland, and largest of all in the 
English Lake District. 
Tarte I11.—Excess of the Mean Rainfall for 1860 and 1861, above the 
average of the ten years, 1850-1859. 
Division. Station. Excess. || Division. Station. Excess. 
Chiswick VIII. | Stonyhurst 
Enfield Coniston 
IX. | Redmires 
Standedge 
Well Head 
Southampton 
Abbott’s Ann 
Patrington 
Wheldrake 
Middleton 
fork 
Bishopwearmouth 
Seathwaite 
Baverstock ..........0.. weak 
GOodamMoor .....cccecceeee 
Tavistock 
Exeter, St. Thomas’s 
Exeter Institution 
Castle Toward 
Kilmory 
Pittenweem ... 
Deanston 
Castle Newe 
Sandwick 
Bressay 
IEEDY .c0-.ss=0ace Caccvccsan: 
Liverpool 
Bolton-le-Moors 
Preston (Howick) 
Preston(House of Correc- 
TION )) Seessecscss sescsencee 
O BNOWH HAP RNIN DHAUN 
Tanre TV.—Average Excess in each Division. 
Division. | Excess. || Division. | Excess. || Division. | Excess. || Division. | Excess. 
inches. inches. inches. inches. 
I. +3'00 Vas + 3°67 > Ra arene XVI. +2733 
Il. +2°40 VII. + roo 3.2 1 ee ae XVII. +7°00 
Ii. +1°50 || VIII. + 7oo|} XIII. ooo || XVIII. |... 
Vis +300 IX, + 3°67 XIV. +2°50 XIX. +3°co 
Vy. +4'88 Xx. -++18°00 XV. +6°00 XX, +825 
