ON THE KAINFALL OP THE BRITISH ISLES. 



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Report on the Rainfall of the British Isles for the ijears 1872-73, by a 

 Committee, consistinff of C.Broois.ie.,F.R.S. {Chairman), J. Glaisher, 

 F.R.S., Prof. J. Phillips, F.i?.^'., J. F. Bateman, C.E., F.R.S., R. 

 W. Mylne, C.E., F.R.S., T. Hawksley, C.E., Prof. J. C. Adams, 

 F.R.S., Prof. J. J. Sylvester, F.R.S., C. Tomlinson, F.R.B., 

 R. Field, C.E., Dr. Pole, C.E., F.R.S., Prof. D. T. Ansted, 

 F.R.S., A. BucHAN, F.R.S.E., G. J. Symons, Secretary. Drawn 

 up by Gr. J. Symons. 



Your Committee are glad to bo able to report steady progress in the various 

 branehes of rainfall work under their supervision. The new stations started 

 in Scotland, as explained in our last Report, have, with few exceptions, been 

 carefully attended to. Your Committee desire to record their thanks to the 

 Directors and Secretary of the Highland and Dingwall and Skye Railways 

 for the very great assistance already afforded, and which your Committee 

 hope to render still more valuable by the personal inspection of the stations 

 by their Secretary at an early date. Gauges have been established at the 

 following stations on these linos, and continuous records have been received 

 from all but those marked witli an *. 



Strome Ferry, Ross, "W. 



Your Committee regret that the vicinity of the Caledonian Canal and the 

 West of Ireland are still very destitute of observers, and that several Welsh 

 counties, e.g. Cardigan and Carmarthen, must be added to the list of districts 

 in which observers are especially needed. Your Committee do not, however, 

 enlarge upon this subject on the present occasion, because they hope at an 

 early date to present a revised edition of the list of stations published in the 

 Report of this Association for 1865, and such remarks will be more appro- 

 priate then than now. The list published in 1S65 has, mainly in consequence 

 of the development of the work under the auspices of the Committee, become 

 obsolete, as it does not contain more than two thirds of the data now col- 

 lected. The new list will contain all records known at the date of publica- 

 tion, and will be invaluable to future inquirers. 



The whole of the forms of inquiry respecting the positions ifec. of the rain- 

 gauges in the coimtry were issued last October. Of the 1700 issued, more 

 than half were not returned ; and therefore, at their meeting in June of the 

 present year, the Committee instructed their Secretary to send a second 

 application to each of these persons. By this means many more have been 

 obtained. The total number received itp to the present time is as follows : — 



1873. s 



