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THE author remarks in his report to the trustees that the chief object of the rainfall organisation is to pre sent the results of the labours of the observers in the best and most useful way. An inspection of the volume under review leaves no doubt that this desirable aim has been fully attained. As in former years, the work is divided into three principal sections, including, inter alia, (1) organisation and special articles, (2) monthly and seasonal rainfall and its relation to the average and heavy falls of rain (see NATURE, February 2), and (3) general table of annual rainfall and number of rain-days at 4874 stations. The cartographic treat ment has been carried further than in previous volumes; the maps referring to heavy falls on rainfall days are of exceptional interest, and include a series of remarkable thunderstorms which occurred chiefly in the south of England from June 5 to 10, with a coloured map (as frontispiece) showing the distribution of torrential rains in the Thames valley on June 9.
British Rainfall, 1910. On the Distribution of Rain in Space and Time over the British Isles during the Year 1910, as recorded by nearly 5000 Observers in Great Britain and Ireland, and discussed with Articles upon Various Branches of Rainfall Work.
By Dr. H. R. Mill. The fiftieth annual volume. Pp. 112 + 328. (London: Edward Stanford, 1911.) Price 10s.
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British Rainfall, 1910 On the Distribution of Rain in Space and Time over the British Isles during the Year 1910, as recorded by nearly 5000 Observers in Great Britain and Ireland, and discussed with Articles upon Various Branches of Rainfall Work. Nature 87, 481 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/087481a0
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