CHAPTER XXVIII 



THE CLOSING OF THE STATION 



HE weather station at Mount 

 Evans was set up to learn 

 the nature of the upper air 

 circulation over and about 

 the great northern ice-cap, 

 and its relation to the greater atmospheric disturb- 

 ances about its borders. It was never the intention 

 to personally conduct the station beyond what 

 would be necessary to learn correctly the nature 

 of this circulation, though it was fully realized that 

 such a station should be maintained permanently 

 by some national or international organization. It 

 was the intention to close the station when two 

 complete years of continuous observation had been 

 made. 



The regular daily balloon and other observations 

 were begun at Mount Evans on July 21, 1927, and 

 the two years were completed on July 21, 1929. 



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