Rainfall for August. 



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tions were not necessary or probable consequences at all ; but, on the 

 contrary, these revelations were a flood of light on the world's great 

 altar stairs " ; that nobler theistic conceptions are furnished by the 

 doctrine of creation by evolution than by the doctrine of creation by 

 special Thus, whatever judgment posterity may pronounce upon 

 his genius and his work, it is already incontestable that in the field of 

 science few, if any, men of our time have done so much to extend the 

 bounds of actual knowledge ; while in the fields alike of science and 

 theology, no man has ever exercised so great an influence over contem- 

 porary thought, as Charles Darwin. 



Ilmufall for §.ugust. 





Height 



of 

 gauge 

 above 



Rain- 

 falL 



No. 



of 



Total Fall 

 TO Date. 



Date of 

 heaviest 



Amount 

 of 



heaviest 

 Fall. 





Davy 







Fall 





sea 

 leveL 







1882. 



1881. 





HUDDERSFIELD (Dalton) ... 



(J. W. Eobson) 



Ft.' 



350 



In. 



1-68 



20 



23-04 



20-19 



18 



0-20 



Halifax... (F. G. S. Eawson) 



3(55 



2-60 



16 



34-80 



29-66 







Leeds ... (Alfred Denny)... 



183 



1-630 



21 



18-305 



tl5-468 



18 



0-360 



HORSEORTH . . . (James Fox) 



3.50 



2-150 



19 



22-550 



t.20-366 



26 



0-320 



Barnsley ... (T. Lister) ... 



350 



1-93 



16 



19-30 



15-81 



30 



0-28 



Ingbirchworth (do.) 



853 



2-56 



17 



27-79 



24-23 



22 



0-43 



Wentworth Castle (do.)... 



520 



1-97 



17 



20-50 



18-36 



30 



0-29 



GooLE ... (J. Harrison) ... 



25 



2-54 



18 



21-02 



16-50 



22 



0 4.S 



Hull (Derringham) (Wm. 



Lawton) 



10 



3-18 



18 



18-29 





25 



0-73 



* This is the average to date for 16 years, 1866-81. 

 t Average of 28 years, 1853-62 and 1865-82. 

 t Average of 13 years, 1870-82. 



Barnsley Naturalists' Society.— Meeting Sept. 12th, Mr. T. Lister 

 in the chair. — The botanical section reported that all the flowering plants 

 known in the district, except about 25, had been observed and dated. 

 Amongst these were (Aug. 10th), Gentiana Amarella, Inula dysenterica, 

 Impatiens noli-me-tangere, Melilohis album, Sedum telephium ; 22nd, Dro- 

 sera rotundifolia, Hydrocotile vulgare. The vertebrate section reported 

 many birds, amongst which were — Aug. 7, spotted flycatcher, coot, moor- 

 hen, magpie ; 20th, wheatear, whitethroat, redstart, swift ; Sept. 5, wild 

 ducks, geese, three terns, snipe, green woodpecker, many sparrow-hawks, 

 kestrels, magpie, ring ouzels— all by Mr. R. Creighton, of Hemsworth, 



