Rainfall 1881. 



571 



I may add that pigeons were found dead with, hunger and cold, also water- 

 hens and others were so far gone that they could easily be Ufted and fed 

 from the hand. Blackbirds became scarce. Thrushes there were none, and 

 the first thrush was heard to whistle on a beech tree to the east of Mounteviot 

 House on May I7th; and though the weather was so severe, we had in 

 April and May a most unusual number of wasps and bumble bees, but the 

 frost on the 10th of June cleared this country side of them, so much so that 

 I have not found a nest of them all summer, and have not seen a single wasp 

 until the beginning of September. We are now having very wet weather, 

 and a great want of sun to ripen fruit, and allow the crops to be harvested. 



September, 1881. J. Page. 



Rain Fall at Glanton Pyke, N'orthumherland, in 1881 

 communicated by Fkedk. J. W. Collingwood, Esq. ; and 

 at Lilhurn Tower, Northumberland, communicated by 



Mr John Deas. 









GLANTON PYKE. 



LILBURN TOWER. 





Inches. 



Indies. 



January 



. . 0.74'0 



January 



.. 2.100 



February 



. . 2.42'5 



February . 





. 2.833 



Marcb 



. . 2.64'5 



March 





. 2.495 



April 



.. 1.31'0 



April 





. 0.805 



May 



.. 4.37'0 



May 





. 2.443 



June 



.. 1.76'0 



June 





. 1.125 



July 



. . 2.73'0 



July 





. 1.375 



August 



. . 6.37'5 



August 





. 6.830 



September . 



. . 4.60'0 



September . 





. 7.455 



October 



.. 4. 1'5 



October 





. 3.323 



November . 



.. 3.13'0 



November . 





. 3.550 



December . 



. . 3.54'0 



December . 





. 2.440 



Total 



36.64'0 



Eain Gauge — Diameter of Funnel^ 

 Sin. ; height of Top above ground, 

 4ft. 3|in. ; above sea level, 517ft. 



Total 



36.774 



Eain Guage — Diameter of Fimnel, 

 lOin square; height of Top above 

 ground, 6ft. ; above sea level, 300ft. 



Places of Meeting for 



the Year 1882. 



Haddington 



Hownam, for Chew-Green 



Wednesday, May 31. 



„ June 28. 



Dunse, for Longformacus ,. . 



Corbridge-on-Tyne 



Jedburgh 



Selkirk 



July 26. 



„ Aug. 30. 



Sept. 27. 



Oct. 11. 



