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NOTES ON THE CLIMATE OF VICTORIA. 
position will, doubtless, give a result in excess of the average 
evaporation, and such, I think, we may assume to be the case in 
this instance; nevei'theless, spontaneous cvapoi'ation in most parts 
of Victoria is greatly in exce.ss of tlio rainfall. 
In the tables ajipcnded, the annual raiiiMl in Melbourne, and 
otlier localities in whicli reliable observations have been made, is 
given foi' each year, as well as the number of days’ rain and 
amount of rainfall for every month and each year in Melbourne 
from 1858 to 18G5. 
