to the Town of Geelong. 



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all of whom I hereby register my thanks for the readiness 

 evinced in forwarding to me the necessary Meteorological 

 returns. 



Table No. V. 



Climates of Melbourne and London. 

 Comparative Eain-fall in Corresponding Months. 



Australian 

 Months, 

 Victoria. 



1847. 



1848. 



1849. 



1850. 



1851. 



Mean 



at 

 Mel- 

 bourne 



Mean at 



London, 



20 Years, 



ending 



1846. 



European 

 Months, 

 England. 



January , 

 February. . 



March 



April .... 



May 



June .... 



July 



August . . 

 September 

 October . . 

 November 

 December 



1.38 

 0.97 

 2.10 

 5.09 

 2.07 

 2.70 

 2.63 

 1.99 

 1.75 

 2.33 

 2.40 

 0.88 



0.61 

 0.03 

 1.61 

 1.61 

 6.94 

 1.61 

 1.11 

 4.23 

 2.87 

 6.51 

 4.17 

 2.45 



0.22 

 1.03 

 2.53 

 5.45 

 3.01 

 0.88 

 4.38 

 7.62 

 5.01 

 1.05 

 12.13 

 0.94 



4.17 

 1.37 

 0.65 

 3.12 



1.43 

 2.76 

 1.98 

 2.08 

 3.85 

 0.28 

 3.44 

 1.85 



0.50 

 0.65 

 1.43 

 1.23 

 4.77 

 5.22 

 1.70 

 3.04 

 4.18 

 1.33 

 6.91 

 0.94 



.136 



.810 



1.604 



.330 



3.644 



2.640 



.230 



3.792 



3.532 



.230 



.581 



1.412 



2.44 

 2.37 

 2.97 

 2.40 

 2.58 

 1.05 

 1.56 

 1.45 

 1.36 

 1.55 

 1.67 

 1.98 



July. 



August. 



September 



October. 



November. 



December. 



January. 



February. 



March. 



April. 



May. 



June. 



Totals in \ 



12months [ 



of each [ 



year j 



26.25 



33.75 



44.25 



26.98 



31.90 



32.63 



24.04 



C Totals in 

 J 12 M'nths 

 1 of each 

 I year 



Mean of 5 

 years. 



Excess of Melbourne over London, 

 8.59 inches. 



Mean of 5 

 years. 



Melbourne, 5 yrs., 1847 to 1851 32-63 



Sydney do. do. 45*79 



Adelaide do. do. 24-23 



Launceston do. do. 33-50 



Bonninvong, 1850 to 1853 29-64 



Melbourne 1856 28-60 



Yan Yean 1856 25-03 



Geelong, ' 1856 24-72 



London, 20 years, 1846 24-04 



Edinburgh, 21 years , 25-60 



Glasgow, 2 years 33-60 



Dublin, 6 years 30-87 



Belfast ...' 36-00 



Great Britain (mean of) .... 32-00 



Paris 21-00 



Rome 36-00 



It will be seen in the foregoing Table No. V., that, by 

 placing the rain-fall of London (the Metropolis of the 

 Northern Hemisphere), and that of Melbourne (the Metro- 

 polis of the Southern Hemisphere,) in a tabular form, in juxta- 

 position, an interesting fact is proved to demonstration, viz., 

 that Melbourne exceeds London by upwards of 35 per cent. 

 The table is compiled from the records of the Melbourne 

 Observatory (then kept by William Henry Archer, Esq., 



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