56 MR. G. V. VERNON ON THE 



electricity, reflects or scatters rather than absorbs light of 

 the wave-length which it radiates, that portion of the 

 coronal light which is polarized and assumed to be reflected, 

 will be accounted for. I think that recent observations 

 have confirmed the probability of these speculations, inas- 

 much as they have confirmed the facts on which these 

 speculations were based. There is one point which has 

 not been already noticed, but which seems to me to be of 

 some importance. 



If the corona be an electric discharge, the electricity 

 will be continually carrying off some of the elements of 

 the sun into space, where they will be deposited and con- 

 densed. May not this stream of matter be the cause of 

 the existence of small meteors, and supply the place of 

 those which continually fall into the larger bodies ? 



VII. On the Rainfall at Old Trafford, and Comparison 

 with the Averages of Twenty Years and Seventy-seven 

 Years. By G. V. Vernon, F.R.A.S., F.M.S. 



Read before the Physical and Mathematical Section, April 25th, 1871. 



In a paper published in Volume I. of the Third Series of 

 the Society's Memoirs, I gave the rainfall for Old Trafford 

 for the years 1850 to i860, and I beg now to submit to 

 the Society a continuation of the same down to the end of 

 1870, making a period often years. 



The period 1850 to i860 was unfortunately very incom- 

 plete, owing to the month of August being deficient in the 

 first six years of the period. The series I now submit is 

 complete throughout the period of ten years. 



