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NOTES AND NEWS : RAINFALL. 



The Chester Society of Natural Science is about to publish a list of the 

 Lepidoptera of Cheshire, west of Warrington, Flintshire, and Denbighshire ; and 

 the secretary, Mr. A. O. Walker, F.L. S., will be glad to receive marked lists from 

 all entomologists who have collected in the district. It is of importance that the 

 records of the rarer species should be accorripanied with particulars as to locality 

 and date, and that the occurrences be well authenticated. These we shall be glad 

 to note in the Naturalist. 



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The handsome, striking and massive new building of the Natural 

 History Museum at Newcastle-on-Tyne, erected at a cost of £&p,ooo, the 

 whole of which has been subscribed by residents in the district, is fast 

 approaching completion, and is to be opened by the Prince of Wales 

 about the end of August. The building is of stone, and stands in its own 

 grounds at the north end of the town. Enriched as it has been by the 

 labours of the men who made the scientific fame of Newcastle, and par- 

 ticularly fortunate in possessing the magnificent collection of birds presented 

 by Mr. John Hancock, most of them preserved by himself, and the equally 

 valuable collection of shells formed by the late Joshua Alder, the Museum will 

 take high rank among similar institutions. 



RAINFALL FOR JUNE 1884. 





1) 















Heaviest 





bfl 



3 • 







Total Fall to 



Date. 



Single Day's 





^ 1) 



o > 















Fa 



LL. 



STATION & OBSERVER. 



Height of Rain- 

 above Sea-le 



j Total Rainfal 

 1 Month. 



No. of Day.s on 

 Rain fell. 



In 1884. "j 



Average of 

 Past Years. 



No. of Years. 



Years of 

 Average. 



Amount. 



Q 



Derringham, Hull.--| 

 Wm. Lawton ) 



Feet. 



Inches 



Days 



Inches. 



Inches. 



No. 



Years. 



Inches 





ID 



0-82 



7 



9'0I 



9-21 



34 



1850-83 



0-48 



6th. 



GOOLE. — John Harrison... 



25 



0-58 



6 



8-82 



io'55 



9 



1875-83 



0-25 



8th. 



Scarborough. — '\ 



130 



0-47 















8th. 



Allan Rowntree ) 



9 



9-91 



11-40 



18 





0-20 



Baldersby, Thirsk. — ) 



















5th. 



W. Gregson j 



ICQ 



I '09 



8 



12-47 









0-36 



Masham.— Thos. Carter. . 



269 



0-89 



9 



14-92 









0-33 



5th. 



Shadwell, Leeds. — 1 



500 







12-80 











8th. 



Geo. Paul j 



I -08 



9 









0-34 



Leeds. — The Museum .. 



183 



074 



12 



II'IO 



10-63 



30 



J 1853-62 \ 

 1 1865-84 j 



0-26 



7th. 



HORS FORTH. — James Fox 





i-i6 



9 



12-24 



14-08 





1870-84 



0-41 



7th. 



Barnsley. — Dr. Sadler... 





1-38 



10 



11-60 



12-98 



I 



1883 



0-82 



7th. 



Wentworth Castle. ] 











15-56 









7th. 



Mr. Fisher j" 



520 



I '33 



10 



12-72 



I 



1S83 



0-62 



Ingbirchworth.— ) 



853 









19-58 





1883 



0-82 



7th. 



Mr. Taylor )' 



2-09 



12 



18-91 





DaltoNjHuddersfld. 1 



350 









14-67 





1866-83 





8th. 



J.W.Rob.sonj' 



0*90 



9 



13-33 



18 



0-38 



Thorpe, Halifax. — i 



365 







18-64 











7th. 



F. G. S. Rawson j 



1-30 



10 









0-34 



Naturalist, 



