448 REPORT — 186r. 



projecting beyond the upper. Ej-es very close together, large, their diame- 

 ter being two- sevenths of the length of the head. Dorsal fins higher than 

 the body ; the second dorsal spine more or less prolonged. The pectoral and 

 ventral fins reach equally far backwards, to the vent. A series of five 

 rounded blackish spots along the lateral line, the last being on the root of 

 the caudal fin. Dorsal fins with series of black spots; outer half of the anal 

 blackish. A blackish bar below the eye. 



Three specimens, two inches long. 



The only British species with which this Goby might be confounded, and 

 to which it is evidently allied, is Gohius rhodoj^terus (Gthr.) ; however, this 

 latter species is said to have the interorbital space broader, its width being 

 equal to one half of the diameter of the eye (Cuv. & Yal. xii. p. 50) ; and 

 M'Coy, who examined two Irish examples, describes the snout as " very 

 short, tumid, and convex," which character cannot be applied to 0. Jef- 

 freysii. 



Second Report of the Rain/alt Committee, consisting of J. Glaisher, 

 F.R.S., Lord Wrotteslev, F.R.S., Prof. Phillips, F.R.S., J. F. 

 Bateman, F.R.S., R. W. Mylne, F.R.S., C. Brooke, F.R.S., T. 

 Hawksley, C.E., and G. J. Symons, Secretary. 



YoTJR Committee consider it will be convenient that the present Report should 

 be so arranged as readily to compare with the previous one ; the different 

 branches of rainfall investigation are therefore classed under the same head- 

 ings as in the last Eeport, and new branches are noticed subsequently. 



1. Extraction and Classification of puhlislied liccords. — This very important 

 work, which was temporarily suspended to allow of more urgent matters 

 being pressed on, has now been resumed, and will be steadily pursued ; it may 

 be desirable to state that its completion must not be expected for some few 

 years ; the labour involved is excessive, but time and pei'severance will ensure 

 the accomplishment of the work, a work not for present use alone, but of the 

 greatest service to all future inquirers. 



2. Examination of liain-yaur/es. — Steady progress has been made in this 

 matter, Mr. Symons having during the year visited and tested sixty gauges ; 

 full details of the examinations are annexed to this Keport. By refei'ence to 

 the list of stations in the British Association Report, 1865, pp. 192-242, it 

 will be seen that ncai-ly every gauge in the counties of Kent and Sussex has 

 been visited and tested. 



3. Inclined and Tipping Funnelled Gauyes. — These instruments were fuUy 

 described in the last Report ; Mr. Chrimes, who kindly undertook the entire 

 cost of the erection and maintenance of these instruments, has continued the 

 observations, which it affords us miich pleas ui-e to state will shortly be 

 examined by Professor Phillips. 



4. LiJJnence of liiver 2Iists on the Amount of Rain collected. — This question 

 remains exactly in the same position as at the Itime of our last Report, since 

 the follo-wing suggestion, thrown out by Mr. Symons in " British RainfiUl, 

 1S6G," p. 7, has met with no response, " I feel rather beaten by these diffi- 

 culties, and do not see how to solve the original proposition of detex'mining 

 the influence of river mists on the amount of rain collected, unless it be bj- 

 transferring the Shepperton gauges to some flat dry district, tolerably uniform 

 in its level, with a lai-ge piece of ornamental water, and then the gauge 



