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growing experiments, together with a cropping plan of the 
Woburn farm for 1908, all helped to make one of the most 
educational exhibits the Society has ever placed before its 
members and the public. 
Royal Meteorological Society, 70 Victoria Street, West- 
minster. — An interesting exhibit was arranged to illustrate the 
work which the Royal Meteorological Society is carrying on 
for the diffusion of a knowledge of the science of Meteorology. 
This included a large number of diagrams, relating to rainfall, 
temperature, sunshine, the influence of weather on crops, 
health, &c., and also a very fine collection of photographs 
illustrating meteorological phenomena. Various patterns of 
self-recording and other meteorological instruments were 
shown, and as several of these were at work, visitors to the 
Show had an opportunity of ^noticing the weather changes 
that were taking place. 
The methods adopted for obtaining information on the 
meteorological conditions prevailing in the upper atmosphere 
were fully illustrated. A large kite, with a meteorograph, and 
also a ballon-soncle , carrying a smaller meteorograph, were 
suspended from the roof of the building. The results obtained 
by Mr. Dines from the ascents made at Pyrton Hill, Oxfordshire, 
January to June, 1908, were given in a diagrammatic form, 
and these showed that there is a generally uniform decrease of 
temperature up to the height of about seven miles above the 
earth’s surface, and that above that height there is no further 
decrease, but often an increase of temperature. 
A diagram of the yearly rainfall at Newcastle-on-Tyne for 
the forty years 1868-1907 illustrated the fallacy of taking too 
sh#rt a period on which to base a true local average of rainfall. 
The yearly amounts were as follows : — 
Year 
Rain 
Year 
Rain 
Year 
Rain 
Year 
Rain 
Ins. 
1868 ... 24 51 
Ins. 
1878 ... 3354 
Ins. 
1888 ... 28-23 
Ins. 
1898 ... 22 19 
1869 . 
. 24-78 
1879 . 
. 28 29 
1889 .. 
. 25 07 
1899 .. 
. 25-57 
1870 . 
. 25-10 
1880 . 
. 29 18 
1890 .. 
. 28 37 
1900 .. 
. 38 88 
1871 . 
. 26-16 
1881 . 
. 33 40 
1891 .. 
. 28 57 
1901 .. 
. 26"36 
1872 . 
. 41 49 
1882 . 
. 30 08 
1892 .. 
. 28 07 
1902 .. 
. 21-98 
1873 . 
. 20 35 
1883 . 
. 29 43 
1893 .. 
. 20-65 
1903 .. 
. 34 46 
1874 . 
. 24-82 
1884 . 
. 22 34 
1894 .. 
. 24 33 
1904 .. 
. 23-34 
1875 . 
. 32 93 
1885 . 
. 25-29 
1895 .. 
. 3016 
1905 .. 
. 21-49 
1876 . 
. 31 47 
1886 . 
. 33 08 
1896 .. 
. 26-91 
1906 .. 
. 3019 
1877 . 
. 37 71 
1887 . 
. 22-81 
1897 .. 
. 2418 
1907 .. 
. 27-33 
Average 20 years ... 28'84. J Average 20 years ... 26 82. 
Average 40 years ... 27-83 ins. 
The average for the whole period of forty years above shown is 27'83 ins. 
The values above this average are printed in thick type, and those below in 
ordinary type. 
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