Quarto. 41-46pp. Original publisher's green printed paper wraps. Light dust-soiling to extremities, ink-stamp of the Royal Meteorological Society and pen and coloured pencil annotations to upper wrap. Occasional spot of foxing to margins, ink annotations to text of rainfall tables. Presentation copy, inscribed to head of upper wrap; 'The Royal Meteorological Society, with the authors compliments.'

A presentation of the precipitation levels recorded at Table Mountain, South Africa during the closing years of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth. Though not stated these readings were presumably undertaken in part in connection to the construction of five dams on the peak between 1896 and 1907.