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Mean Light-Curve op R Yulpecuiue, 
As derived from the Observations at the Woodcroft Observatory in the 
years 1861 — 1865. 
MAG 
A paper was also read, “ On the Fall of Rain during the 
Different Hours of the Day, as deduced from a Series of 
Observations made by the Rev. J. C. Bates, M.A., F.R.A.S., 
at St. Martin’s Parsonage, Castleton Moor,” by Joseph 
Baxendell, F.R.A.S. 
In the spring of last year, the Rev. J. C. Bates, M.A., 
F.R.A.S., of Castleton Moor, contrived a rain-gauge by 
which he is enabled to determine the amount of rain which 
falls during every quarter of an hour of the entire day. Ob- 
servations with this instrument were commenced on the 24th 
of May last, but were interrupted for two days in October, 
owing to damage done by the violent gale of the 25th of that 
month, and again in December, while the driving clock was 
under repair. All the observations made up to the end of January 
have been kindly forwarded to me by Mr. Bates for examina- 
tion and discussion, and although the series extends over a 
period of only a little more than eight months, and caution is, 
therefore, required in basing general conclusions upon it, 
yet the results I have obtained appear to me to be sufficiently 
remarkable and interesting to be worthy of being brought at 
once under the notice of meteorologists, in order that the law 
