FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING. 6i 



is my high ambition some day to serve within thy temple, O Art! 

 and to add imperfect and faulty, but loving, work to that of the 

 noble army of Artists who still praise thee. 



Agricultural College, Manhattan, Kan., October, 1872. 



METEOROLOGICAL SUMMARY FOR THE YEAR 1872. 



By Prof. F. H. Snoiu, of the Latvrence State University. 



Station, Lawrence, Kansas. Latitude 38° 58'; longitude 95" i6v* 

 Elevation of the barometer and thermometers, 884 feet above sea 

 level and 14 feet above the ground ; rain gauge on the ground; ane- 

 mometer 105 feet above the ground, on the dome of the University 

 building. 



temperature. 



Mean temperature of the year, 51.90% which is 1.23° lower than 

 the mean temperature of the four preceding years. Mean tempera- 

 ture of the winter months, 24.91°; of the spring, 53.21°; of the sum- 

 mer, 70.40°; of the autumn, 51.91". The winter and spring were each 

 four degrees colder, and the summer and autumn were each less 

 than half a degree cooler than the corresponding seasons in the 

 year 1871. 



The mean temperature of the year 1869 was 1.54° lower than that 

 of 1872, but in the former year the winter months were much warmer, 

 and the summer much cooler than in the year just completed. 



The mean temperature at 7 a. m., 44.89°; at 2 p. m., 61.14°; at 9 p. 

 M., 94.65°. The highest temperature was 97°, June 26 and August 

 26; the lowest, 18° below zero, December 20 and 24 — giving a range 

 of 115° for the year. The mercury fell below zero on 16 days, Jan- 

 uary 28, 29, 30 and 31, February 3, 6 and 7, November 29, and De- 

 cember 20 to 27, inclusive. The "cold snap" in December was the 

 severest and longest continued on our record, the mercury on one 

 occasion remaining below zero for 50 consecutive hours. The month 

 of November was even colder than in 1871, the mercury sinking be- 

 low zero for the first time on record for that month. Winter weather 

 began November 13th, five days earlier than last year, and the Kan- 

 sas river was closed on the 29th, two days later than last year. The 

 coldest month of the year was December, with mean temperature of 

 19.93°; the coldest week was in December, ( 20th to 26th, inclusive,) 

 the mean temperature being only one-twentieth of a degree above 



