118 HD. A. Ward—Rainfall in Middletown, Conn. 
the dispersion of colors. In one of the papers already cited, 
Art. XI.—The Rainfall in Middletown, Connecticut, from 1859 
to 1882; by Henry D. A. Warp. 
Wuen Mr. B. F. Harrison’s paper, on the Rainfall in 
Wallingford, appeared in the American Journal of Science in 
June, 1881, a friend suggested that the publication of a similar 
one from my own records would be of interest as affording a 
means of comparing the precipitation of the two places. 
As a result of this suggestion the following table has been 
pepe. It covers a period of twenty-four years, from 
anuary Ist, 1859 to December 31st, 1882, and, like Mr. 
Harrison’s, gives month by month the amount of rain and 
of hills on whose western slope that town is situated. 
I deem it proper to state that, up to June Ist, 1868, the 
and 70 feet above sea-level. 
bodies the latter part is by far the greater. But it need not surprise us that the 
former should be the greater in some meta 
the phenomena observed in metals, 
* See volume xxiii of this Journal, page 460, 
