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and tiioiiglit to this isubject, while even alter tlie transfer ollhe Smith- 

 sonian system to the War Department, the disenssion and ])nblieation 

 of the material already aecumulated was eontinued by the Institution. 



The Smithsonian Institution may, then, be termed the i)arent of the 

 l)resent Weather Bureau. 



In 1891, the present Secretary (Mr. S. P. Laugley) deposited in the 

 United States Si.uiial Oflice all the volunnnous monthly records of the 

 Institution, and all the manuscrii»t and printed observations and con- 

 tributions relating- to meteorology, subject to recall, but with the un- 

 derstanding that the entire official record of research and progress in 

 this connection should be preserved intact by the Bureau which now 

 has these iuvestigations in charge. 



