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I do not altogether agree with Governor Rawson when he says, in his interesting letter in NATURE, vol. viii. p. 245, that βthe experience of Barbados is opposed to the theory broached by Mr. Meldrum and Mr. J. N. Lockyer.β On the contrary, I rather think that Mr. Rawson's figures support the theory. He has taken 1846 and 1871 as middle maxima years (in my first paper I also took 1848), whereas 1849 and 1872 are probably more correct. Making this slight alteration, we get, according to Mr. Rawson's statistics:β
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MELDRUM, C. Periodicity of Rainfall. Nature 8, 547β548 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008547c0
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