Rainfall for January. 



125 



should Te?id " napaeus Line 4 from toj^ of page 110, " 1875 " should 

 read '^1835." 



OBITUARY. — Benjamin Cooke. — It is with the deepest regret I 

 record the death of my late friend Mr. Benjamin Cooke, of Southport, 

 who died suddenly on the 3rd inst. He was born on the 16th September, 

 1816, and was the son of Mr. Isaac Cooke, founder of the well-known 

 firm of Isaac Cooke & Sons, cotton brokers, Liverpool. From earliest 

 childhood he and his brother, Mr. Nicholas Cooke, were remarkable for 

 their intense love of insects, astonishing their friends by covering the 

 waUs of their nursery with moths, butterfles, &c. , spread out so as to 

 show their beauties to the best advantage. This natural taste very greatly 

 developed at the Friends' School, York, where great attention was, and 

 is stUl, paid to the cultivation of a love of jSTatural History in the scholars. 

 Mr. Cooke was not content with studying one order of insects only, but 

 was wonderfully acquainted with insect life generally — indeed, unless it 

 was Diptera, I do not know to which order he paid the greatest attention. 

 His knowledge of species was truly astonishing, as numerous friends can 

 testify who have sought his assistance in naming their specimens. You 

 will miss, I am sure, a valued correspondent, as the papers from his pen 

 you have from time to time published have added much to the interest 

 of your useful periodical. — S. J. Capper, Huyton Park, Liverpool, Feb. 

 18th, 1883. 



^lainfall for llauuarir. 





Height 



of 

 gauge 

 above 



sea 

 leveL 



Rain- 

 falL 



No. 



of 



Total Fall 

 TO Date. 



Date of 

 heaviest 



Amnunt 

 of 



tie-civiest 

 FalL 





Davs 



1883. 



1882. 



Fall. 



HUDDEESFIELD (Dalton) ... 



(J. W. Eobson) 



Ft. 



350 



In. 













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



365 



8-40 



21 



8-40 



6-05 



28 



2.11 



Leeds ... (Alfred Denny) .. . 



183 



3-74 



22 



3-74 



tl-79 



28 



0-745 



HoRSFOETH . . . (James Fox) 



350 



3-98 



24 



3-98 



i2-36 



28 



0-58 



Eatelbt Bridge... (E. War- 

 burton, M.R.C.S.. L.S A.) 



436 



4-31 



13 



4-31 



0-26 



29 



1 89 



Baenslet ... (T. Lister) ... 



350 



3-37 



18 



3-37 



2-46 



28 



0-71 



Ingbiechwoeth (do.) 



853 



6 "55 



23 



6"55 



419 



28 



1-54 



Wentwoeth Castle (do.)... 



520 



4-69 



19 



4-6'J 



2-90 



28 



0-97 



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



25 



212 



21 



212 



1-65 



24 



0-45 



Hull (Derringham) {Wm. 



Lawton) 



10 



1-92 



19 



1-554 



§1-92 



24 



0-.56 



* Average to date for 16 jenrs, 1866-81. f Avei age of 29 years. 1853-62 & 1865-83. 

 J Average of 14 years, 1870-83. 

 § The annual average for 30 years, 18.50-79, is 22'317 on 151-15 days. 



