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year 1868; but the editor hopes that the list will be still fur- 

 ther extended when the report for 1869 is issued. 



There are a few places in the neighbourhood of which it is 

 desirable to establish additional rain guages. The sources of 

 the North Tyne, Falstone, Bellingham, Morpeth, Alnwick, Holy 

 Island, Cheviot, Haydon Bridge, Knaresdale, Blanchland, Me- 

 domsley, Middleton-in-Teesdale, Bishop Auckland, Hartlepool, 

 &c, may be mentioned as amongst the localities from which it is 

 desirable to obtain further information. The editor will be very 

 glad to communicate with any one resident in those neighbour- 

 hoods, or who may have friends who would be willing to help 

 in the work. The time and trouble taken up by the necessary 

 attention to a rain guage is very small, and as observations 

 accumulate it is almost always found to be a subject of growing 

 interest. 



The editor is enabled, through the kindness of a member of 

 the Club much interested in the subject, to offer to supply accu- 

 rate guages for a very few shillings to any one who will under- 

 take to return the record of the observations at the end of the 

 year to the Club. 



The year 1868 was very remarkable for the pecuharity of the 

 distribution of the rainfall. The earlier months of the year were 

 considerably in excess of the average fall, while in the next three 

 months the deficiency was very great. 



It will be interesting to compare the quantity of the rainfall 

 at the following places, which have been selected because records 

 are in the possession of the Club from each of those stations 

 since the year 1856, when Meteorology was first practically taken 

 in hand by the Tyneside Club. The stations have also been 

 chosen with the idea of showing the fall in each part of the 

 counties of Northumberland and Durham. 



Average for 18G8. Fxrp=;q in 



Jan., Feb., Mar., April, Jan., Feb., Mar., isll 



for 12 years. April. '■^^''■ 



NORTH. inches. inches. inches. 



Lilburn 7-92 8-19 0-27 



tyne valley. 



Bywell 8-33 8-96 0-63 



Wylam 7*30 10-36 3-06 



