Is English weather really so bad as is popularly supposed? There are climates and climates in the world; some worse, some better. May it not be that ours really is, in many respects, not worse but better? Perhaps a slight digression here will be pardoned, for the sake of Old Ocean’s good name, in his dealings with the British Isles. Foggy days, dull and damp days, are apt to make a more lasting impression upon some people’s memories than sunny days. One reason for the generally mournful idea of British weather may be due to the fact that foreigners, Frenchmen especially, are by nature more light-hearted than Englishmen, and that they keep chiefly in mind their sunny days, while we perhaps keep chiefly in mind our dull days. To gain a fair estimate of average British weather, long and careful observation is necessary. There is absolutely no safe criterion, save that of record-keeping. Not many people have the perseverance to do this for any length of time, and few non-scientific people have the fairness of mind and judgment to do it dependably. It is in my power to tell of a record which has been kept, steadily, carefully, perseveringly, by an English lady during many years, and to give the results at which she arrived. Without being strictly scientific she was--I have to say “was,” since she has passed from our midst--accurate, regular, conscientious, and fair-minded. For all this I can vouch from personal knowledge. At the same time that she kept records of the weather, she registered day by day the readings of her thermometer and the daily amount of rainfall. With the two latter we are not now concerned. Her method as to weather-registration was as follows. Four marks were used: =X= for a thoroughly fine day; =V= for a day in which fine and dull mingled, but in which the fine predominated; =I= for a day in which again the two mingled, but in which the dull or rain had the best of the matter; and =O= for a day which could only be described as decidedly bad. Of course many days occur which it is difficult to assign to either class, especially of the two middle divisions. But a constant endeavour was made to keep a fair proportion. If one doubtful day were placed, for instance, in the =V= division, the next equally doubtful day would be carefully placed in the =I= division, to ensure accuracy. At the end of each month all these four classes were added up separately. Also, to simplify results, the Good and the Half-good, the Bad and the Half-bad, were classed in two columns as comprehensively Good and Bad. From these two columns curious results were obtained. It should be stated that the lady in question lived at Reigate, and was seldom absent from home, never more than for a few weeks at a time. The record is thus mainly of one place. Now and again a short absence occurred, and her observations were then carried on wherever she might be; but the absences were so few and generally so short as to be unimportant.