THE 
FALL OF RAIN 
In the Meteorological Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, the 
rainfall on every day that any fell, has been carefully recorded. The 
rain-gauge with which the observations were at first made, is stated to 
have been constructed according to Mr. Howard’s directions in his work 
upon the Climate of London (see vol. vii. of the 1 Transactions of the 
Society, page 100), and the following description is extracted from 
that work :—~ 
1 The rain-gauge consists of three pieces, a funnel, a bottle, and the 
measure. The funnel is most conveniently made of five inches opening, 
and of the form represented in the figure: the mouth-piece of brass’ 
turned in a lathe, the remainder of tinned copper. It has two necks : the 
inner and longer one, widening a little downwards, enters deep into the 
bottle, and conveys the rain: the outer neck is soldered on the cone of 
