342 A. Woetkof—Mean Annual Rainfall. 
figures for Coimbra, while Professor Hann has some years 
ago proved, by the results of the new observations, that it has 
a oer -fall not much above that of Lisbon. 
3. Scandinavia, where the fall above 50” is restricted to a 
few exceptional places, near high mountains of West Norway, 
like Bergen and Floroé. Even Christiansund has much less. 
Kastern Norway and the interior valleys (Christiania, Dovre) 
have less than 25’ 
In what concerns s Huropean Russia, the shading is perfectly 
right, as I have found by a new and more extensive collection 
of data. The frontier of the fall of more and less than 10” is 
also in the main right, except in the vicinity of Orenburg, 
where it should be drawn somewhat more to the south. 
In Asia, north of the medida there is more tochange. Thus 
the zone of less than 10” in the Arabo- -Caspian steppes and 
vicinity is too large in Profesor Loomis’s ma t does not 
stretch so far to the north and northeast, and certainly does 
not reach to the foot of the Altai, where the rains of summer 
and the snows of winter are rather abundant. On the east 
coast of the Caspian, Krasnovodsk (40° N.) has also more 
an 10”. 
There is a great rain-fall on the south shore of the Caspian, 
as well as on the south part of the western shore; on the latter 
Professor Loomis has the station of Lenkoran 51:7”. 
The country about Lake Balkash and the upper Irtysh is 
very dry, it being really a continuation of the Arabo-Caspian 
dr: 
pasture and toes in this region prove that the two latter sta- 
tions are os exceptional. I should rather include most of the 
basin of the Yang-tze and eastern Indo-China in the region 
having more than 50” , though I have no observations to prove 
my case. But the known humidity of ae region, the luxuri- 
ous vegetation, the immense floods of the rivers* corroborate 
my opinion. Easter oes seems to hive ae than 75”, as is 
seen ep 54 yeast f Surabaya and 2 years, 1879-80. It 
safe to give 50-75” to the islands east of Java so far 
as Sumbawa, and a shade less to Flores and Timor, while 
Biltod Billiton and the Moluccas and Southern Philippines 
have probably over 75” 
As to British India, Professor oo has made a good use 
of the numerous observations ther 
* Sce E. L. Oxenham, Inundations of the Yang-tze-Kiang, in Jour. Roy. Geogr. 
Soe., 1875, p. 170. 
