geao' Jiainfall at Cliftoa. 
By GEORGE F. BURDER, M.D., F.M.S. 
HE tables and remarks which follow have reference to obser" 
X vations of rainfall taken at No. 7, South Parade, Clifton, 
from the 1st of January, 1853, to the 31st of December, 1889. 
The lawn on which the rain-gauge was placed has an elevation 
of 1 99 feet above the mean sea level. The position is sufficiently 
open in every direction, without being unduly exposed. The 
receiving area of the gauge was six inches above the surface of 
the ground, except during the last two years, when, with a new 
instrument, the height was twelve inches. The diameter of the 
receiving area has been throughout eight inches. The observa- 
tions have been uninterrupted, and, with few exceptions, the 
gauge has been emptied daily when rain has fallen. It is 
scarcely necessary to add that under the term ‘‘rainfall” are 
included the liquid equivalents of snow and hail. 
In Table I. are given the quantities measured in each of the 
360 months over ^^hich the observations extend, with the 30 
anniud totals. 
The figures in Table II. are extracted from Table I. They 
indicate the smallest and largest amounts registered in each 
month of the year, and in the whole year. It will be seen that 
the two driest months of the series were April, 1854, and 
September, 1865, in each of which the amount of rain collected 
was 0*099 inch ; while the wettest month w^as August, 1865, 
yielding 8*508 inches. Of the years, the driest was 1864, the 
vvettest, 1889. In 1864 the total fall was no more than 99*746 
inches; in 1882 it amounted to 48 980 inches. 
