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Excerpt from Climate of New South Wales: Descriptive, Historical, and Tabular I desire to express my especial thanks to all who have assisted me in collecting this information in several instances most valuable meteorological diaries kept in the country have been put into my hands for use. To have given here, however, a long list of names would not have been justice, an I have therefore given the names with the extracts. I may, however, 6 allowed to say, as some satisfaction to many correspondents, that the ready assistance I have received has enabled me to bring to light much valuable information heretofore lost to science. Much, however, is yet wanting to complete the history of the droughts, both as to their extent and effects; and I trust that those who ma be in possession of a fact or facts will publish or send them to me, for by collecting isolated facts I have been able to make up many of the series in this work. My best thanks are due to the Royal Society for allowing me to add to this book a. Pa er en Meteorological Periodicity, read before the Society in October, 18 6. Historical Notes on the Meteorological Observatories and Observations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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