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As Dr. Hunter has been good enough to mention my name in his letter to NATURE (vol. xvii. p. 59) in connection with a comparison of the rainfall of Northern India and the sun-spot period, I may, I trust, be allowed to express my opinion regarding the validity of some of the conclusions he draws therefrom. In the first place I would remark that Dr. Hunter's idea of the winter rainfall of Northern India being due to the immediate rebound of the summer monsoon from the Himalayan barrier is at variance with facts in the meteorology of the country. The rebound ought to take place directly the monsoon vapour-current impinges upon the Himalaya, i.e., in the summer. In fact, it is by a succession of oblique rebounds from this impassable barrier that the monsoon is gradually reflected towards the N.W.P. and the Punjab.
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ARCHIBALD, E. Indian Rainfall. Nature 17, 505 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/017505a0
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