31576 OBSERVATIONS UPON THE CLIMATE OF UCKFIELD, SUSSEX, AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD, FROM 1843 TO 1870. SECOND EDITION. WITH SOME ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS MEMBER AND STATISTICS OF RAINFALL TO THE END OF THE YEAR harles 1885. BY C. LEESON PRINCE, OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, FELLOW OF THE ROYAL -nisi persuadere nobis volunt, sanis quidem considerandum esse, quod cœlum, quod tempus anni sit; ægris verò non esse. Lewes H. WOLFF, 64, High Street. 1886. 4-17-38 PREFACE. THE first edition of this work being now out of print, I am requested to issue a second, in which I have inserted a continuation of the monthly notices of the weather to the end of the year 1885. My meteorological instruments having been removed to Crowborough in the spring of 1872, I have not added any tabular matter in respect of temperature since the date of publication of the former edition. By the assistance of Miss Laura Day, since the year 1877, I am enabled to give a continuous register, in a series of tables, of the yearly, monthly, and seasonal rainfall at Uckfield for a long period; the results of which may be considered a very reliable record of the rainfall there, as well as, relatively, to its immediate neighbourhood. Chapters II. and III. have been revised, and for the most part re-written, in accordance with the continuation of the general observations for the district. Chapters V. and VI. of the first edition have been omitted. As to the former, I contemplate its forming the basis of a separate work, and with respect to the latter I consider it has already answered the purpose for which it was written. C. L. P. THE OBSERVATORY, CROWBOROUGH, Nov., 1886. |