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out ; the subsequent discussion will, we hope, be completed long before it is 

 required for our next lleport. 



_ The onlj' remaining subjects to which we have to direct attention are the 

 biennial tables for 1870-71, which are given in the Appendix, and the re- 



Eatio of Rainfall in the British Isles in 1871 to Mean (1800-69 = 100). 



1871. 



suits of a comparison of the fall in each of those years with the averages at 

 the same stations and with the same instruments during the ten years 1860- 

 69, given in our last Report. This is given in Table I., and an abstract of 

 the same in Table 11. 



