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In contrast with this, Mr. Phillips presented the following table of measures of 

 rain, received on globular gauges (first recommended by the Rev. Dr. Robinson at the 

 Newcastle Meeting of the Association in 1838), at York, on the ground, and three, 

 six, and twelve feet above. A column is also added of the quantity received in a 

 funnel-gauge, three feet above the ground : — 



By this table it appears, first, that on the average the globular gauges receive nearly 

 twice as much rain as the horizontal funnel-gauge ; secondly, that from the ground to 

 a height of six feet, the quantity in those gauges seems not decidedly to varj^, beyond 

 limits which may be permitted by small errors of the instrument, or local irregulari- 

 ties ; thirdly, that at a height of twelve feet more rain is received than at any of the 

 stations nearer the ground. This singular result the author is at present disposed to 

 view as due to a purely local cause ; the situation of the gauges being such, that the 

 lower gauges may be believed to be partly sheltered from the wind by shrubbery, and 

 in consequence, during wind, the rain drops be supposed to fall upon them, in lines 

 deviating less from vertical lines than on the upper gauge. The consequence of such 

 conditions on such gauges would be as the experiments indicate. Mr. Atkinson had 

 previously begun to employ in his series one globular gauge of twelve inches diameter, 

 at a height of six feet ; and at this same height he had placed one horizontal funnel- 

 gauge of twelve inches diameter, another of 18 inches diameter, and a third funnel- 

 gauge of twelve inches diameter, with the opening inclined 45°, and turned constantly 

 to face the wind. The comparative quantities received by the twelve- and eighteen- 

 inch horizontal, and the twelve-inch inclined gauges, appear as follows : — 



Supposing the graduations employed in the registration correct, the larger gauge 



