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REPORT — 1878. 



The mean rainfall for the mean cycle is 26*6 inches, and for the whole 

 period (1824-67) 26'8 inches. 



Owing to some heavy floods in 1844, 1855, and 1867, the rainfall for 

 the eleventh year of the mean cycle is somewhat above the average. 



28. The converse arrangement of the yearly rainfall at eleven stations 

 gives the following results. 



The above table has been derived from a paper by the late Dr. Carl 

 Ielinek, of Vienna, published in the 'Zeitschrift der Oesterreichischen fur 

 Meteorologie,' for March, 1873, in which the rainfalls at fourteen stations 

 are given. Three of these stations, the returns for which are not com- 

 plete, have not been used in forming the table. 



The mean rainfall for the meaa cycle and also for the whole period 

 (1836-61) is 686 m.m. 



The rainfall was at its minimum (33 m.m. below the mean) in the 

 year after the year of minimum sunspots, and at its maximum when the 

 sunspots were at their maximum. 



