14 MAY 1864, Page 24

British Rtinfall. Compiled by G. F. Symons. (Edward Stanford.)— The

author has been at the trouble of collecting, arranging, and printing the observations of about 700 different private observers of the amount of the rainfall in the United Kingdom. He has done this now for four years at considerable cost and trouble, and though no very remarkable generalizations—for which of course time is required—have as yet been obtained, the debt of the public to Mr. Symons is none the less. The collection of facts is laborious, and brings little fame, but it is the foundation of science.