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KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, 



sas, which has less rain in winter than any State in the Union except 

 Minnesota and Nebraska, the apparent deficiency is abundantly 

 made good by a more copious supply of rain in spring, summer and 

 autumn than is received by the great majority of the other States. 

 In confirmation of this statement, and for a more extended compar- 

 ison, the following table is introduced, based, like table III, upon 

 the observations of the observers of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 and representing the rainfall in nearly twenty different localities 

 in eastern Kansas. It appears from the table that during the 

 five years from January ist, 1865, to January ist, 1870, the average 

 annual rainfall for Kansas was greater than that of the follow- 

 ing states : New Hampshire, Vermont, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, 

 Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska, ( 10 States out 

 of the 19); also that the average amount of rain for the spring, sum- 

 mer and autumn months was greater in Kansas than in any of the 

 other States except Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey and Ken- 

 tucky; and finally that for the seven months from the first of March 

 to the first of October, when rain is needed for the germination and 

 growth of crops, Kansas stands at the head of the list, having more 

 rain than any of the nineteen States with which the comparison was 

 made. It will be observed that the quantities for Kansas are greater 

 in this table than in tables V and VI, based upon the observations of 

 the writer. This may be accounted for by remembering that the 

 periods of observation are not the same, and that certain other 

 places in Kansas, especially in the southern portion, have undoubt- 

 edly a greater rainfall than Lawrence: 



Table VII.— Rainfall of Kansas compared with that of other States, from Jan. 1, 1865, to .Tan. 1,1870 



