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MR. SYMONS'S “British Rainfall” is so well known that we need only say of the present issue that it is in no respect inferior to the preceding volumes of the series. The marked characteristic of 1887 was the prevalence of droughts. According to Mr. Symons, the year has had no equal for widespread deficiency of rainfall since 1788. Naturally, therefore, much space is devoted in this volume to the subject of droughts; and in one chapter—on “Historic Droughts”—he has brought together, from a variety of sources, a large amount of information that ought to be as interesting to historians as to meteorologists. In the preface Mr. Symons calls special attention to important additions which have been made to our know ledge of the rainfall of the Lake District. These have resulted from a grant of £42 7s. made by the Royal Society from its own funds in 1886.
On the Distribution of Rain over the British Isles during the year 1887.
Compiled by G. J. Symons. (London: Edward Stanford, 1888.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 38, 363 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038363c0
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