‘Tropical Rains. a 
+H. ©. Russent, BA., F.R.AS. Government Astronomer, 
[Read before the Royal Society of N.S. W., 14 June, 1882.] 
e years ‘past I fag praises. all the available r rain 
me “for this Plc st only for their value as statist 
 tauses and limits of our rains, in the es ope that by so doing some 
light might be preceding upon questions of great practical and 
Scientific im 
_. At the eat time rain observations are sent to me by about 
_ 270 observers. Of these by far the greater number are private 
measures, The majority live in places where there 
tecords as complete as they are, or to hope for any success in 
Wwever, still many large areas in the e Colony from which I get no 
‘observations, and some from which the rain is sent without any 
f wind the 
ies, 
gh that is very great, but is aa. ane for studying the 
no official observers, and it is obvious. therefore that abe 
for their assistance it would be quite impossible to make the 
hvestigating the difficult question of rainfall, &e. There are, 
