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METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS CONNECTED WITH THE SENIOR COUNTY 



GRAMMAR SCHOOLS. 

 [From the Annual School Report for 1858.] 



1. Circular to the county councils and to the hoards of senior county 

 grammar schools in Upper Canada. 



Gentlemen : I have the honor to inform you that the necessary 

 instruments for making meteorological observations at each of the 

 senior county grammar schools in Upper Canada have been procured 

 by the chief superintendent of education, and are now ready for dis- 

 tribution by this department. 



The section of the grammar school law authorizing the establish- 

 ment of these meteorological stations in connexion with the senior 

 county grammar schools of Upper Canada is as follows : 



" Whereas it is desirable at seminaries and places of education 

 to direct attention to natural phenomena, and to encourage habits of 

 observation ; and whereas a better knowledge of the climate and 

 meteorology of Canada will be serviceable to agriculture and other 

 pursuits, and be of value to scientific inquirers : 



^^Be it therefore enacted, That it shall be part of the duty of the 

 master of every senior county grammar school to make the requisite 

 observations for keeping, and to keep, a meteorological journal, em- 

 bracing such observations, and kept according to such form, as shall 

 from time to time be directed by the Council of Public Instruction ; 

 and all such journals or abstracts of them shall be presented annually 

 by the chief superintendent of schools to the governor with his annual 

 report. 



" Every senior county grammar school shall, on or before the last 

 day of November, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, be pro- 

 vided, at the expense of the county municipality, with the following 

 instruments : 



" One barometer ; one thermometer for the temperature of the air ; 

 one Daniels' hygrometer, or other instrument for showing the dew- 

 point ; one rain-gauge and measure ; one wind-vane. 



'' And it shall be the duty of the chief superintendent of schools to 

 procure these instruments at tlie request and expense of the municipal 

 council of any county, and to furnish the master of the senior county 

 grammar school with a book for registering observations, and with 

 forms for abstract thereof, to be transmitted to the chief superintendent 

 by such master, who shall certify that the observations required have 

 been made with due care and regularity." 



The delay which has occurred in providing tliese instruments has 

 been unavoidable. Tliose first selected in the United KStates were found 

 to be unsuitable ; and upon consultation with Colonel Lefroy, so long 

 and favorably known in connexion with this department, improve- 

 ments, which experience in this climate had suggested, were adopted, 

 and a range as low as 35° and 40.° below zero was given to the ther- 

 mometers. 



The instruments, when ready, were all tested by James Glaisher, 

 esq., and their variations recorded. They were also examined and 

 approved by Colonel Lefroy. In addition, the chief superintendent 

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