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List — Continued. 



State. 



Iowa- 



Wisconsin " 



Minnesota Ter. 



Oregon 



Name. 



T. S. Parvin- 

 Dr. Asa Horr 

 I.E.Bali--.. 



I. A. Laphain -- 



Rev. John Grid ley-- 



Orrin Dinsmore 



Eiiwanl Spencer 



Prof. S. P. Lathrop. 

 Dr. F. B.Mills---- 

 James C. Brayton-- 



Thomas Gay- 



C. F. Pomeroy----- 

 J. L. Pickard- 



Rev. Jos. W. Holt, per J. 



B. Culver 



Robert Hopkins 



Georn-e A. Atkinson- 



British Possessions-; Capt. J. H. Lefroy 

 i Henry Poole 



Residence. 



Muscatine. 



Dubuque. 



Keokuk. 



Milwaukie. 



Kenosha. 



Emerald Grove. 



Summit. 



Beloit. 



Baraboo. 



Aztalan. 



Belle Fontaine. 



Green Lake. 



Platteville. 



Sandy Lake. 

 Travers des Sioux. 



Oregon City. 



TorontOj Canada W 

 Pictou, Nova Scotia. 



Distribution of Instruments. 



According to the terms of the circular letter of November, 1849, the 

 use of instruments for observation were promised to those persons who 

 should prove most capable and who occupied the most important places. 

 This has been complied with to the greatest limit permitted by the means 

 of the Institution applicable to meteorology. It was early seen, however, 

 that the applications were so numerous, the country so extensive, and the 

 number of sets which could be furnished so few, that it was determined to 

 modify the plan. All applicants for instruments were accordingly notified 

 that they could be obtained by themselves defraying half the cost; the 

 other half being charged to the Institution. Manyhave availed themselves 

 of this provision — being more willing to accept these terms in consequence 

 of the superior construction of the articles, all of them comparable with 

 each other and the best standards at home and abroad. 



The Institution has adopted the policy of favoring the more distant places 

 in the distribution of instruments, when furnished at its own expense — 

 including distant settlements in the new States, or on the extreme frontiers, 

 such as would not likely be otherwise ])rovided for, and from whom ob- 

 srvations would not otherwise be obtained. It also avoids furnishing them 

 to colleges, or other institutions of learning, it being presumed that such 



