ON THE RAINFALL IN THE BRITISH ISLES. 



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accordingly our Secretary proceeded, in order to obtain such further observers 

 as seemed requisite. In this he was on the whole very successful, as the 

 accompanying diagram shows more clearly than any explanation. 



Bain-gaucje Stations in Devonshire (j)art of). 

 1869. 1870. 



Old Stations. 



Old and new Stations. 



Great, however, as was the improvement then effected, it cannot be said 

 that the rainfall of Dartmoor is properly observed until gauges have been 

 started, one near Cranmere Pool and one between Meavy and Holne, two 

 districts extremely difficult of access and quite uninhabited. 



Subsequently circulars were sent to (and courteously inserted in) 'The 

 Times,' ' Nature,' ' Scientific Opinion,' and various local journals in districts 

 where observers were most required. About 100 volunteers were thus 

 obtained, many of whom also undertook to pay for their own instruments, 

 thus mateiially increasing the number of stations obtained by our special 

 grant. Gauges, the property of this Association, have been supplied to the 

 following stations during the past year, and, with hardly an exception, the 

 returns sent in have been most satisfactory : — 



Country. County. Station. Observer. 



England Devon Tavistock Reservoir Mr. Merrifield. 



Clawton, Holsworthy W. W. Melhuish, Esq. 



Prison Garden, Dartmoor Mr. Watts. 



Bundles Cross, „ „ 



Powder-Mills, „ Mr. Hen wood. 



Holne Vicarage, „ Rev. J. Gill. 



Oaklands, Oakhampton W. H. Holley, Esq. 



N. Lew, Ilatherleigh Rev. T. England. 



