128 
In tlie next table I give the fall of rain for 1874 during 
the day from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., and the fall during the night 
from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. The results obtained from this table 
show another exceptional character of the rainfall of last 
year. Hitherto every year since I have made this com- 
parison the total fall for the year in the day time has 
exceeded the total fall during the night. But during the 
past year the reverse has taken place and that to a large 
extent. In 1873 the total excess of the day over the night 
fall was 2 ’8 46 inches, or about 18 per cent, whilst during the 
last year almost the reverse happened, for the night fall 
exceeded the day fall by 2'692 inches, or about 15 per cent. 
1871. 
Eainfall 
in inches from 
8 a.m. to 8p.m. 
Rainfall 
in inches from 
8p.m.to8a.m. 
Difference 
betweenXight 
and Day fall. 
January 
1-357 
1-862 
-{-0-505 
February 
0-619 
0-821 
-i-0-202 
March 
0-958 
2-053 
-1-1-095 
April 
0-367 
0-496 
-i-0-129 
May 
0-767 
1-136 
-1-0-369 
1 June 
0-602 
0-270 
—0-332 
July 
0-447 
1-649 
-1-1-202 
1 August 
3-114 
2-857 
—0-257 
i September 
1-953 
1-585 
—0-368 
October 
2-119 
2-073 
—0-046 
November 
2-668 
2-557 
—0-111 
December 
1-702 
2-006 
-1-0-304 
i 
16-673 
19-365 
+2-692 
In the next table I present the average day and night 
fall for a period of seven years. The results of this table 
continue, notwithstanding the reversal of last year, to con- 
firm the experience of previous years, that the day fall ex- 
ceeds the night fall as far as the amounts of the whole year 
are concerned. The same curious fact presents itself in this 
table which is presented in a similar table of the previous 
two years. It is this: that an average excess of night 
rainfall occurs in January, February, August, September, 
November, and December. The total excess of the fall 
