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The following list includes stations already occupied, which are, however, 

 marked to distinguish them from those which it is proposed to estabhsh : 



List of tlte meteorological stations to be established. 



Sub-trojiical Zoiii . — Kc}' "W'"est, Florida; Point Isabel, Rio del Norte, New Orleans, 

 Louisiana. 



Warm Temperate Zone. — A. St. Augustine, Tlorida; Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Vicksburgh, 

 Mississippi; Fredricksburg, Texas; EI Paso, New Mexico; San Diego, California. 

 B. Chapel Hill, Carolina; Knoxville, East Tennessee; Nashville, West Tennessee; 

 Fort Atkinson, Indian Territory; Fort Washita, Indian Territory; Santa Fe, New 

 Mexico. 



Middle Temperate Zone. — A. X, Washington, D. C. ; Lexington, Virginia; Fort Leaven-, 

 worth, Indian Territory ; Bent's Fort, do. B. X. New York city. New York; a cen- 

 tral point, Pennsylvania ; Stenbenville, Ohio ; Columbus, Ohio; Indianapolis, Indiana; 

 Springfield, lUlnois ; Bioomington, Iowa. 



Middle Temperate Zone (continued.) — Fort Kearney, M. T.; Fort Laramie, M. T.; Salt 

 Lake, Utah; Fort Hall, Oregon ; Nueva Helvetia, California; San Francisco, do. 



Cold Temperate Zone. — Bowdoin College, Maine ; Dartmouth College, New Havapshire ; 

 Burlington, Vermont; Kingston, Canada; Manitoulin Island, or Bruce Mines, Canada; 

 Lansing, Michigan; Milwaukee, Wisconsin ; Fort Gaines, Minnesota ; Fort St. Pierre, 

 Minnesota Territory ; Fort McKenzie, do. ; Fort Kootanie, Oregon ; Fort Walla Walla, 

 do.; Fort Vancouver, do.; three ncv/ ligiit-houses along the coast from Oregon to 

 Point Conception, California. 



Resolutions. 



Resolved, That the committee on meteorology recommend to the American Association 

 for the Advancement ol" Science, the appointment of a committee to memorialize Congress 

 in regard to the immediate extension of the system of meteorological obseiwations now 

 making in the United States, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution. 



Resolved, That this committee be authorized and directed to request the Secretary of the 

 Treasury to provide for the making of meteorological observations, according to the direc- 

 tions of the Smithsonian Institution, by the keepers of the light-houses which are to be 

 established at points on the western coast of the United States, named in the reports of the 

 committee on meteorology. 



Resolved, That the same committee be requested to address the Surgeon General of the 

 United States in reference to the co-operation of this department in the same system, and 

 to suggest the locations named in the report of the committee on meteorology as those where 

 the observation should be made. 



Resolved, That the same committee be requested to memorialize the Canadian govern- 

 ment, and the several legislatures of the States of our Union, asking their co-operation in 

 the foregoing system of observations. 



Resolved, That the same committee be requested to inform the Hudson Bay Company 

 of the steps which have been taken to carry into effect the system referred to in the memo- 

 rial addressed to them by this association, at the last annual meeting. 



