TEANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



SOUTH AFRICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 



AN INTKODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF SOUTH 

 AFEICAN EAINFALL. 



By J. E. Sutton, M.A., F.E.Met.S. 

 (Eead December, 1903.) 



This paper is to be regarded as the fifth of the meteorological series 

 planned some years ago, four of which have appeared in previous 

 volumes of the Transactions of the South African Philosophical 

 Society. 



The following materials are available for a discussion of the rain- 

 fall of Kimberley : — 



1. Monthly totals 1875, 1877-1902, by F. W. Matthews. 



2. A complete daily register, 1884-1897, by the late G. J. Lee. 



3. A complete daily register, 1880-1890, saving a gap in 1884, by 

 the late L. and S. A. Exploration Company, taken for the Meteoro- 

 logical Commission ; also nearly complete monthly totals from the-, 

 same gauge, published in the Annual Eeports of the Meteorological 

 Commission, 1880-1900. 



4. Monthly totals, 1885-1900, by the Gaoler, taken for the Meteoro- 

 logical Commission. 



5. A complete register, 1894-1902, by J. E. Sutton. 



6. Nearly complete returns within the last five years from gauges- 

 established at the different mines owned by the De Beers Company. 



7. Occasional returns from various sources. 



Of these the first is in many respects the most important, as it is 

 the most extensive and complete. The record shows internal evi- 

 dence of having been well and faithfully kept. The gauge has,. 



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