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NOTES AND NEWS : RAINFALL. 



Mr. Thomas Southwell, F.Z.S., has favoured us with a reprint of his new list 

 of the Mammalia of Norfolk, which includes a comparison of its mammalian fauna 

 with those of the other eastern counties of England for which lists have been 

 printed. By this table it appears that Essex, Norfolk, and the united counties of 

 Northumberland and Durham, possess each 41 species, while Yorkshire has 43. 

 Suffolk and Lincolnshire would doubtless Rave been included in the comparison, 

 were it not for the fact that their mammalian faunas have not as yet been 

 catalogued. >oo< 



Mr. Charles Ashford continues in the Joinmal of Conchology his very valuable 

 papers upon the ' Darts of British Helices.' These organs afford an unfailing means 

 of discriminating between closely allied species of Helix where outward characters 

 fail us, as in the case of Helix nemoralis and H. hortensis. These are often 

 considered to be varieties of one species, but an examination of their darts (which 

 are very distinct from each other in character) is quite sufficient for the identi- 

 fication of adult specimens. A great service is conferred upon science by a 

 conchologist of Mr. Ashford's calibre undertaking to work out so neglected a 

 subject as this. 



RAINFALL FOR NOVEMBER 1884. 



STATION & OBSERVER. 



Height of Rain-Gauge 

 above Sea-level. 



1 Total Rainfall for 

 1 Month. 



No. of Days on which 

 Rain fell. 



Total Fall to 



Date. 



Heaviest 

 Single Day's 

 Fall. 



4 



00 



Average of 

 Past Years. 



No. of Years. 



Years of 

 Average. 



j Amount. 



Q 



Derringham, Hull. } 

 Wm. Lawton J 



Feet. 



Inches 



Days 



Inches. 



Inches. 



No. 



Years. 



Inches 





10 



112 



16 



15-62 



2I-II 



34 



1850-83 



0-25 



30th. 



GooLE. — John Harrison... 



25 



I 'OI 



II 



1679 





9 



1875-83 



0-25 



30th. 



WETWANG,The Wolds, ) 

 Rev. E. Maule Cole j 



235 



I -62 



12 



20.46 









0*33 



30th. 



Scarborough. — ! 

 Allan Rowntree j 



130 



2-19 



18 



19-31 



26-39 



18 



1866-83 



0-41 



28th. 



Baldersby, Thirsk.— 1 

 W. Gregson j 



100 



I -60 



15 



23-51 









0-25 



4th. 



Masham.— Thos. Carter. . 



269 



1-67 



12 



25'52 









0-47 



4th. 



Shadwell, Leeds. — ) 



















i6th. 



Geo. Paul j" 



500 



1-50 



14 



22-81 









0-35 



Leeds. — The Museum ... 



183 



079 



19 



20-33 



22-86 



30 



J 1853-621 

 1 1865-84 j 



0-28 



5th. 



HoRSFORTH. — James Fox 



350 



1-25 



16 



22-39 



29-72 



15 



1870-84 



0-27 



4th. 



Barnsley,— Dr. Sadler... 



350 



I -GO 



13 



19-28 





2 



1882-83 



0-32 



4th. 



Wentworth Castle. | 

 Wm. Fisher/ 



520 



I -06 



II 



20 -66 



30-22 



8 



1877-84 



0-37 



4th. 



Ingbirchworth. — 1 

 J. H. Taylor} 



853 



I -62 



16 



28-49 



43-30 



12 



1873-84 



0-47 



4th. 



Dalton,Huddersfld. 1 

 J.W.Robsonj 



350 



1-32 



13 



22-28 



30-53 



18 



1866-83 



0-48 



4th. 



Thorpe, Halifax. — ) 

 F. G. S. Rawsonj' 



365 



2*04 



17 



3173 





2 



1882-83 



0*56 



4th. 



TuxFORD, Notts. — \ 





















Grammar School, - 



220 



I -06 





17-07 



22-80 



8 



1876-83 



0-33 



30th. 



J. N. Dufty.j 

















Naturalist, 



