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(See Murray's guide p.400)

near Shillong is Cherrapunji noted as the place of heaviest rainfall in the world.  The annual rainfall is 450 inches & some years it has reached 905 inches of which 366 inches fell in July alone.  Only a few miles away Shillong has 82 inches annually.  The clouds strike a steep mountain side & precipitate their moisture in loads at this point chiefly causing the heavy rainfall.

(10)  I spent the day at the Museum reading in the library.

(11)  Dr. Annandale asked me to lunch at the Museum today.  He lives with 2 other naturalists in the Museum compound in a fine house facing a small lake &