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PHYSICAL AND MATHEMATICAL SECTION. 
October 13th, 1864. 
Joseph Baxendell, F.R.A.S., President of the Section, 
in the Chair. 
Mr. Vernon, F.R.A.S., read a letter from Mr. James Tay- 
lor, Secretary of the Oldham Corporation Gas and Water 
Works, enclosing the following returns of Rainfall at Oldham, 
Strines Dale, and Brushes Clough. Mr. Taylor states that 
cc the gauge at Oldham is fixed at the Gas Works, about four 
hundred yards from the centre of the town. Strines Dale is 
one of our reservoirs about two miles north-east of Oldham. 
Brushes Clough is the site of another of our reservoirs about 
three miles north of Oldham.” 
RAINFALL AT OLDHAM. 
Gauge — 6 feet above ground, and 600 feet above the sea. 
1860. 
1861. 
Rain 
No. of 
Days’ 
Maximum 
Daily Rain Fall 
Rain 
No. of 
Days’ 
Maximum 
Daily Rain Fall 
Fall. 
Rain. 
in each Month. 
Fall. 
Rain. 
in eaoh Month. 
January 
Inches. 
2"55 
25 
Inches. 
21st— 0-38 
Inches. 
0-27 
8 
Inches. 
24th— 0-06 
February 
0'89 
16 
8th— 0-21 
1-99 
17 
Sth— 0-57 
March 
3-77 
25 
2Sth— 0-50 
4-46 
28 
2nd— 0-70 
April 
1.37 
11 
8th— 032 
0-87 
6 
1st— 0-36 
May 
3T8 
18 
26th— 0-50 
1-02 
8 
25th— 0-28 
June 
630 
25 
2nd— 092 
2-14 
16 
21st — 0-36 
July 
2'71 
13 
29th — 0'50 
3-95 
27 
11th— 0-53 
August 
4-48 
28 
10th— 053 
2-63 
20 
22nd— 0-55 
September ... 
252 
20 
16th— 0-66 
4-33 
17 
8th— 0-72 
October 
4-47 
24 
10th— 0-72 
1-16 
15 
24th— 0-23 
November . 
251 
17 
21st— 0-53 
4-28 
24 
25th— 1-04 
December ... 
1-63 
16 
6th— 0-86 
1-56 
15 
6th— 0-51 
36-38 
238 
28-66 
201 
