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the top of Mount Banahao is much heavier than in the surround- 
ing lowlands, but the distribution is very similar to that for 
other places on the eastern coast of Luzon. The heavy rainfall 
results in a constantly high moisture content of the soil. 
Table I. — Rainfall hi centimeters at the top of Mount Banahao, Luzon, 
P. I. Altitude, about 2,100 meters. 
Week ending — 
Rainfall. 
Week ending— 
Rainfall. 
1915. 
cm. 
1916 — Continued. 
cm. 
8. 60 
May 17 
27.00 
17 
27. 10 
24 
17. 10 
24 
28. 50 
31 
6.01 
22. 10 
14. 30 
8 
16.30 
14 
13.00 
15 
14. 00 
21. .., 
6.01 
22 
9.40 
28. 
9. 60 
29 - 
30. 10 
9.80 
1916. 
12 
26. 40 
Jan. 5 
18.30 
19 
8.00 
12 
9. 20 
26 
7. 01 
19 : 
14.50 
Aug. 2 
3. 45 
26 
47.60 
9 
^ 2.20 
Feb. 2 
59. 80 
16 
4.81 
9 - 
0.23 
23 
4.07 
16 
10.60 
30 
3. 96 
23 
15.20 
Sept. 6 
4. 20 
Mar. 1 
6.60 
13 
6.11 
8 - 
9. 60 
20.... 
18.40 
16 
3.15 
27.. 
17.80 
! 22 : 
2.65 
Oct. 4 
21.50 
j 29 
15. 70 
11 
7.80 
Apr. 5 -- 
0.52 
18 
20. 60 
12 
13.60 
25 
18.10 
19. 
10.50 
Nov. 3*. 
41.20 
26 
19. 80 
746. 82 
j May 3 
10.10 
i 10 - 
7. 16 
•> Nine days. 
The relative humidity records are presented in Table II in 
the form of maxima, minima, means, averages of daily maxima, 
and averages of daily minima of periods of four weeks from 
November, 1915, to November, 1916. The means for both hu- 
midity and temperature were taken from the original records by 
