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receiving surface is one foot above the level of the ground. Here 
again we have a marked difference between the first five and last 
five years, the total of the first five being 140.83 inches, and of 
the last five 117.24 inches, or a difference for the period of 
23.59 inches. In other words, the first five years gave an average 
of 28.16 per annum, and the last five only 23.45 per annum, or 
4.71 inches per annum less than the first five. The wettest year 
was 1892, with 31.05 inches, and the driest 1693, with 19.66 
inches. The wettest month was October, 1892, with 7.62 inches, 
and the driest February, 1891, with 0.07 inch only, which latter 
was nearly equalled in April, 1893, when 0.10 inch oidy fell. 
On the average of the period, July and October were the wettest 
months, each yielding a mean of over 3 inches, and February was 
the driest, the average being 1.36 inches only. Comparing this 
table witli Table III. (mean temperatures), it will be readily seen 
that the five cool summers I have alluded to were wet, the rainfall 
of July exceeding 4 inches in four instances out of the five, 
whereas, with one exception, all the five warmer summers were 
dry, and the exception referred to (1894) was the coolest of the 
five warm summers. 
Tables V., VI., and VII. deal exclusively with the direction of 
the wind, and my reason for compiling these tables is, that 
I think they may be useful for reference by our ornithological 
members, some of whom occasionally consult me as to prevailing 
wind directions over particular periods connected with the 
migration of birds. Time will not permit me to refer to them at 
length ; they speak for themselves, and will, I think, supply such 
information as may be necessary for ornithological purposes. 
I would only say in passing that the results at the foot of 
the columns in Table V., have been obtained by extracting from 
mv journals, the general direction of the wind for every day 
during the ten years. These results show in a most marked 
manner that the winds in this neighbourhood have a very decided 
maximum for each mouth, and such maximum extends over 
a considerable period; i.e., the S.W. is the prevailing wind 
continuously from June to January, followed by W. in February 
