FURTHER NOTES ON THE RAINFALL OF SINGAPORE. 
IVE years ago I had the privilege of submitting a few 
notes on the rainfall of Singapore, which appeared in 
No. 7 of this Journal. I now purpose to add a few more re- 
marks on this interesting study. 
In the last notes above referred to, the registers of two 
places only were taken into account, viz., those of the old 
criminal Prison between Brass Bassa and Stamford Roads, 
for the rainfall in Town, and Mr. Knight’s on Mount 
Pleasant, Thompson Road, for the country ; but in 1880, on 
the removal of the Criminal Prison to its new locality, the 
former was discontinued, and later on Mr. Knight changing 
his residence the latter also. 
It, therefore, became necessary to take a more general 
view, and a table has been prepared of the Mean Annual Rain- 
fall of Singapore as observed at present at seven stations, 
which, through the kindness of Dr. Rowezz, Principal 
Civil Medical Officer, Straits Settlements, in permitting me 
to have access to the records, I now have the pleasure of 
submitting, together with charts shewing the ranges of the 
Mean Annual Rainfall, and Rainy Days since 1869. It will be 
an easy matter to continue these charts, say at intervals 
of five years, and thus arrive at some idea of the law of the 
rainfall of Singapore. 
Mr. Sxinyer in his article on “Straits Meteorology” 
(No. 12 of this Journal), is of opinion that it is “not too 
early to endeavour to obtain some results from the series 
of Rainfall returns” now to hand, and has ventured to con- 
nect certain outbreaks of cholera, beri-beri, &c., with the 
rainfall. The concluding paragraphs of that article are very 
hopeful and promising. The chart accompanying this 
paper apparently bears out his anticipations that “ an excess 
of rain may be looked for inthe years 1884-85,” for the line 
is an ascending one; but it requires the tracings of a few 
more years to get a clear knowledge of the rhythm of the 
alternations of periods of lesser and greater ascents before 
