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biology in its widest sense. The theory of gravitation had been guessed 

 at before Xewton, but he showed how it was to be proved, and deduced 

 the law of its action. S»j, also, the theory of evolution had been 

 guessed at before Darwin, but he first detected the lines along which it 

 must be proved by direct experiment, and thereby revolutionised scientific 

 biology. Even those who still oppose the theory of evolution cannot but 

 confess that it explains many things previously inexplicable, and reduces 

 the chaos of crude ideas about the succession of life on the earth into a 

 system of beauty and symmetry. Aft^r years of careful study and hard 

 work in preparing his materials and his weapons, he boldly and alone 

 attacked the fortress of superstition which had been the growth of ages, 

 and with one blow, as it were, shattered it into atoms. Almost alone 

 again, he stood — such men as Huxley, Lyell, and Hooker being his only 

 supports, — and faced the mass of angry vitufjeration and abuse at first 

 heaped ufKjn his head. Yet he has lived to see the triumph of his ideas, 

 and died regretted and esteemed by every student of science in the world. 

 Twenty-one years after the first appearance of his most memorable book, 

 the naturalists of Yorkshire had the proud honour of presenting to him 

 personally a beautiful memorial of congratulation upon the attaining of 

 its majority" of the "Origin of Species"; and we know how that 

 memorial touched and gratified the old man's heart. Though dead in the 

 body, Ms name will live for ever in the heart of every true naturalist, and 

 Xewton and Darwiv — G-ravitaito>' and Evolutio>' — must stand side 

 by side in the Temple of Fame, t 



Fi-ainfall far glarcb. 





Height 



gauge 

 above 



sea 

 level. 



Rain- 

 falL 



No. 

 of 

 Dayjs 



Total Fall 



TO BAfE. 



1882. 1881. 



Date of 

 heavi^t 

 Fall. 



Amoont 

 of 



Heaviest 

 Fan. 





Ft. 



In. 













HUDDEESFIELD - 



:m 



2-37 



u 



8-68 



* 7-82 



24 



0-69 



(J. W. i;: . - 

















Halifax. . . (F. G. S. Eawsonj 



365 



4-57 



20 



14-04 



12-98 







Leeds ... (Alfred Denny)... 



183 



1-775 



17 



5-902 



4-790 



25 



0-480 



HoB-srOBTH ... (.James Fox) 



3-70 



2-320 



17 



7-130 



6-810 



31 



0-670 



EAEysLET ... (T. Lister) ... 



350 



1-64 



11 



5-80 



7-30 



26 



0-70 



LSGBIECHWOETH (do.) 



a53 



3-22 



18 



10-38 



9-45 



25 



0-82 



Wextwobth Castle (do. ) . . . 



520 



1-65 





6-^ 



8-43 



25 



0-62 



GooLE ... (.L Haeekox) ... 



25 



1-63 



n 



5-32 



5-99 



25 



0-60 



Hull (Derringham)...nVm. 



10 



1-20 



14 



4-52 



4-32 



25 



0-37 



La-wton) 

















* TLii is tiie average to date for 16 vears, 18 :>6-81. 



t Since the above was in type, we leam that Darwin is to be interred in West- 

 minster Abbey, close to the grave of Sir Isaac Newton ! — EjjS. Nat. 



