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THIS valuable publication is well known to readers of NATURE, having been frequently referred to in its columns. The fundamental part of the work includes: (i) general tables of total rainfall, and (2) observers remarks on the weather; these are of great interest, and refer mostly to exceptional phenomena. The discussion of the data deals inter alia with monthly and seasonal rainfall, heavy daily falls, and the relation of the annual rainfall to the average. A great rainstorm of September 17, which was most intense near Doncaster, is illustrated by a coloured plate; the area with more than an inch of rain in about fourteen hours comprised more than 1300 square miles. The rainfall of the year over the whole of the British Isles was almost exactly equal to the average of thirty-five years (1875–1909). fhe excess in Wales was 9 per cent. and in Ireland 7 per cent.; elsewhere there was, generally speaking, a deficiency. The volume includes three special articles: (i) an appreciative memoir of the late Sir John Murray, who represented Scotland on the Board of Trustees of the British Rainfall Organisation; (2) the dry summer of 1913—in July and August the rainfall deficiency was 6o per cent, over the United Kingdom as a whole; (3) frequency of heavy rains in short periods, 1868–1913. fhe useful work of the organisation is dependent upon voluntary contributions, but unfortunately it is not self-supporting; the director has to meet considerable deficiencies, consequently application for Government aid has become necessary.
British Rainfall, 1913.
Compiled under the direction of H. R. Mill. By R. C. Mossman and C. Salter. Fifty—third annual volume. Pp. 92 + 384. (London: E. Stanford, Ltd., 1914.) Price 10s.
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British Rainfall, 1913. Nature 94, 33 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/094033a0
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