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IN his second letter (NATURE, vol. x. p. 263) Governor Rawson makes the following remarks:—“Mr. Meldrum, in his letter (vol. viii. p. 547), writes, that I have ‘taken 1846 and 1871 as middle maxima years [in my first paper I also took 1848], whereas 1849 and 1872 are probably more correct.’ Mr. Meldrum is in error as to my having taken 1846 as a middle maximum, as a reference to my former letter will show.... I demur to the changes to 1849 and 1872: to the first because, without any sufficient reason, a dry year (48.10 in.) is discarded, and a wet year (67.88 in.) is added; and to the second, not because it affects my calculations, but because no reason is given.”
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MELDRUM, C. Periodicity of Rainfall. Nature 11, 327 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/011327a0
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