352 Eighth Annual Keport of the 



EASTERN PLATEAU — ORANGE COUNTY. 



Station,, Middletown — In Charge op Selden H. Talcott, M. 

 D., Dr. Allen and Mr. Ewer, Observers. At the State Hos- 

 pital. ' 



Established January, 1890; latitude, 41 deg. 25 mln. north; longitude, 74 deg. 25 mln. 

 ■west; elevatioD, 700 feet. 



The State hospital is located about 1 mile southwest of Middle- 

 town, and is about 50 feet above the city. The ground slopes 

 rapidly away from the station toward the north and east, but 

 southward the country is nearly level with the station, or rises 

 slightly above it. 



The dry and wet, maximum and minimum thermometers are ex- 

 posed on the northern side of a wing of the hospital, one and one- 

 half stoTies in height. The instruments are secured to frame- 

 work facing the window, 2 j^eet distant from it, and 10 feet 

 above the ground. The thermometers are about 4 feet below the 

 roof, which, extending 4 feet beyond the wall, is utilized as a 

 shelter. The rays of the -sun are entirely excluded from the in- 

 struments and the sod beneath, in the morning by the high wall 

 of the main building, which extends for 170 feet or more toward 

 the north, and in the afternoon by a northern extension of the 

 wing. The window is only opened for the purpose of moistening 

 the wet-bulb thermometer. The room within is unheated but the 

 corridor in the basement beneath is warmed by steam during the 

 winter. The thermometers are about 40 feet distant from the 

 main building. 



The rain-gauge is exposed on a lawn east of the main building 

 and about 100 feet from it. There are no obstructions to a free 

 air circulation in the vicinity of the gauge, other than a few orna- 

 mental shrubs 30 or 40 feet distant. 



