ene E. Loomis—Contributions to Meteorology. 
countries, of which those from Mexico, Japan, the East Indian 
Archipelago, and Australia, and those contained in the second 
edition of Schott’s Rain Tables, have proved of the greatest 
value for my present purpose. I have carefully considered the 
criticisms which have been made upon my first paper, particu- 
larly those of Dr. Woeikoff (this Journal, May, 1882) and those 
of the editor of Nature (June 29, 1882). 
The accompanying table shows the most important observa- 
tions which I have thus far received, many of them being from 
new stations, while those from stations included in my former 
paper exhibit the results of a more extended period of observa- 
i olumn Ist contains the reference number; column 2 
gives the name of the station; column 38d gives its elevation 
above the sea expressed in English feet; column 4th gives the 
latitude of the station and column 5th its longitude from Green- 
wich; column 6th shows the number of years of observation 
represented ; column 7th shows the mean annual rain-fall ex- 
ressed in English inches; and column 8th gives the authority 
for the results. In the last column, Schott’s T. 2d ed. stands for 
Engenharia; S. Paulo Rw. Co. stands for Saéo Paulo Railway 
Company; Zeitsch. stands for Zeitschrift der Osterreichischen 
Gesellschaft fiir Meteorologie; En. Met. Com. 28 stands for 
Contribution to the Meteorology of Japan No. 28, issued by the 
English Meteorological Committee; Q. J. Met. Soc. stands for 
Quarterly Journal of the London Meteorological Society; A. v. 
Danckelman stands for Meteorologischen Beobachtungen von 
Dr. A. von Danckelman; Russ. Met. Obs. stands for Russell’s 
Rain Observations in New South Wales. The other abbrevia- 
tions will probably be understood without particular explana- 
tion. This table might have been very much enlarged, but I 
have confined myself to those stations which were regarded as 
specially useful in revising my rain-chart. With the aid of the 
new materials thus collected I have prepared a new chart of the 
rain-fall which is believed to represent pretty well all the obser- 
vations contained in my two tables. 
If these two charts are carefully compared, a general resem- 
blance will be readily perceived, particularly in the Northern 
Hemisphere. In North America there is a little change be- 
tween Lake Superior and Hudson Bay; also in Yucatan and 
Central America. In South America the changes are much 
greater. The observations from the Argentine Republic indi-— 
 eate that the line of 50 inches rain-fall crosses the meridian of 
60° in about latitude 274° S.; and although the number of ob- 
