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dry ai'ea. What change took place, before period (C), with its " remark- 

 able series " of storms began, can be matter of surmise only, but I 

 think it is fair to assume that it was not shown by the ground level 

 observations, and that it may have been caused by the disturbance of 

 August 11th, which entered India from Thibet, and which was so clearly 

 shown in its advance along the Himalayan Range. 



I may be allowed to explain that I make no claim to have thrown, 

 by this discussion, any light upon the complicated problem of the 

 distribution of monsoon rainfall in Northern India. The connection 

 between cyclonic storms and rainfall has for years been a matter of 

 enquiry. I shall be satisfied if I have even partially succeeded in 

 making out a prima facie case for an extension of meteorological 

 observations to the upper atmosphere, feeling sure as I do that further 

 information in that direction will meet requirements which ground 

 level observations have hitherto failed to satisfy. 



