340 PROFESSOR FORBES ON THE CLIMATE OF EDINBURGH. 
TABLE VI.—THE SEASONS ARRANGED AS EARLY OR LATE BY THE DATE OF SUMMER 
Maximum. 

1845*| 8.| 1818 || 15.| 1817 || 22.| 1808 || 29.| 1797 || 36.| 1815})) 43.| 1849 || 50.| 1796 
1846*) 9.| 1850 || 16.) 1824 || 23. {is 30.| 1807 || 37. {isa 44.) 1831 || 51.) 1810 
1798 || 10.|(1826 || 17.| 1828 || 24. |, 1803 || 31.) 1854 || 38. 
1822 || 11. : .|U811 || 32.)(1809 || 39. ; ; 
1804 | 12.; 1833 || 19.) 1839 || 26. |f1813 || 33. jisis 40.| 1843 | 47.) 1841 || 54. 
1836 || 13./(1837 || 20.| 1844 || 27. { .|U825 |) 41.) 1805 || 48.1(1819 || 55. 
1829 || 14. ae 21.) 1847 || 28.| 1820 || 85.|s1800 || 42.) 1806 |) 49. | 

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Sect. 4. On the Annual and Monthly Fall of Rain at Edinburgh for Thirty-eight years. 
43. Mr Ape appears always to have paid great attention to the amount of 
rain. 
44. The rain-gauge used by him was a metal funnel, about 63 feet above the 
ground, with a glass tube connected with it, and a stop-cock, by means of which 
the depth of rain was at once indicated.t+ 
45. The following Table contains the monthly results for thirty-eight com- 
plete years, and part of two others. I have been unable to find a comparable 
register for the years omitted; but even had one existed for a neighbouring 
locality, the seemingly capricious variations of this element of climate would 
make it hazardous to attempt any arbitrary reduction from one spot to another :— 
* In these two years, and also in 1810, there is some ambiguity owing to a double maximum 
occurring in June and August. In 1845 and 1846, at least, the effective maxima must be held to 
have occurred in July. 
} Mr Atexanner J. Aprz has favoured me with the following information about his father’s rain- 
gauges :—“ Linlithgow, 14th March 1859.—My belief is, that there were but two gauges used in all 
the time the register was kept, and that the one still standing in the garden at Canaan Cottage was 
the only one used after that at Merchant Court was broken up. The second gauge is about 63 feet 
above the ground, and of the ordinary form of the funnel mouth, with the glass tube and scale at the 
side. Falls of snow were taken by pushing down a cylinder through the snow in an open place, 
melting it, and measuring the depth of water for the fall had it been in rain,” 
