Abstract
MY studies on the distribution of rain oh the earth have often caused me to regret our want of knowledge about the quantity of water falling on the oceans, especially in the tropics. The observations on the continents and large islands are very apt to mislead us as to what takes place on the open sea. As there seem to be very great difficulties about observing rain-gauges at sea, I have thought it would be possible to gain some insight into the matter by placing rain-gauges on the smallest and lowest islands to be found on the ocean, the meteorological conditions of which differ but very little, if at all, from those of the ocean. In the Pacific such islands are to be found in plenty; in the Atlantic I would especially recommend the island of St. Paul 1/2° N. and 291/2° W.; in the Indian Ocean, the Southern Maledives, the Chagos, and Keeling Islands, &c.
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