80 REPORT—1874. 
Taste I1.—Mean and Extreme Ratios in each Division. 
Abstract of Table I. 
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ae ae Bs Ratio for 1872. | Ratio for 1873. 
Division.) Description. = Be | 
Z, 2 | Mean. |Highest.| Lowest.|| Mean. |Highest.| Lowest. i 
ENGLAND AND WALES. 
T. | Middlesex .........cce..+ss00 I 132 132 132 83 88 88 
II. | South-Eastern Counties...) 7 132 140 124 gI 96 84 
IIL. | South Midland Counties...| 7 133) | 153 120 93 106 37 if 
IV. | Eastern Counties ..... peeve 4 143 148 139 95 99 go 
V. | South-Western Counties... 10 133 145 122 93 103 84 
VI. | West Midland Counties .... 6 156 177 125 92 IOI 82 
VII. | North Midland Counties... 5 148 156 128 86 gI 83 
VIII. | North-Western Counties...) 5 135 149 117 88 94 80 
EX) Vorkshine iiedsceasavesnvncses 6 152 163 142 79 88 75 
X. | Northern Counties ......... 7 138 177 118 83 93 71 
XI. | Monmouthshire, Wales, &e.} 4 151 164 | 134 86 gI $2 | 
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XII. | Southern Counties ......... 5 127 151i B® fe) 84 100 60 
XIII. | South-Eastern Counties ...) 4 161 170 151 104 122 97 
XIV. | South-Western Counties ... I 160 160 160 112 112 112 
XV. | West Midland Counties ...|. 9 120 152 84. 95 108 79 
XVI. | Hast Midland Counties 6 143 163 132 95 100 86 
XVII. | North-Eastern Counties ...) 5 149 178 115 || 106 128 94 
XVIII. | North-Western Counties...) 7 127 158 82 || 98 138 74 
XIX. | Northern Counties ......... 6 123 135 103 |] 107 | 123 89 
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OX | MOISE! ooc.cssenasrstieceincebae 4 137 163 102 98 119 80 
PRSNGNT Tera Wilstorscsccscewarecaseceteeceetes 3 131 138 124 88 gI 84 
WMGHiGscersc. esse chee tnereny Supn < 139 155 122 94 104 84 
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DMG INF MATETA ovesscsdu eee see ees £ 120 | 132 82 79 88 60 
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former being 55 per cent. of the latter. A still nearer approach occurred at 
Cobham, in Surrey, in 1851 and 1852, when the totals were 17°38 inches and 
34:19 inches respectively, the former being 51 per cent. of the latter. In 
Table III. no cases are admitted unless much more striking than the above. 
The districts in which these exceptional ratios occur are (as might be ex- 
pected) principally those in which the excess in 1872 was greatest ; but there 
are also a few of which the explanation is not so obvious. It is very satis- 
factory to feel that these two exceptional years have found in the British 
Isles the most nearly perfect system of observation in the world. 
Your Committee cannot close their Report without expressing, as far as 
words can do so, the loss which they have sustained in the death of Professor 
Phillips, one of the original members appointed in 1865, who, notwithstand- 
ing the numerous other demands upon his time, was always as willing as he 
was able to assist the Committee in any of the various difficulties which the 
extent of their operations inevitably involve, 
