See Murray's guide p.400 Near Shillong is Cherrapunji noted as the place of heaviest rainfall in the world. The annual rainfall here is 450 inches and 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 storms strike a steep mountain side & precipitate their moisture in clouds at this point as chiefly causing the heavy rainfall. 10th spent the day at the Museum reading in the library. 11th Dr. Gunnar Dale asked me to lunch at the Museum today. He lives with 2 other naturalists in the museum compound in a farmhouse facing a small lake.