26 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 79 



NOTES ON INDIVIDUAL STATIONS 

 COLOMBO 



Height of barometer from start to October 1876 was 42 ft. ; 

 November 1876 to 1909, 40 ft. ; January 1910 to date, 24 ft. The 

 data are the means of 9*' 30™ and 15'' 30" readings ; they were copied 

 from tables received from the Superintendent, Colombo observatory, 

 and are stated to have been reduced to the present height of 24 ft. 



From January i, 1910 the data are from observations recorded at 

 Colombo Observatory at a distance of about three miles from the 

 original site of the observatory at Colombo Fort. 



NUWARA ELIYA 



Height of barometer from start to August 1873 was 6240 ft. ; 

 September 1873 to 1877, 6150 ft.; January 1878 to 1896, 6240 ft.; 

 January 1897 to date, 6188 ft. Corrections of +.045, —.033, +.045 

 were applied to reduce the three former periods to the present height 

 of 6188 ft. The data have been the means of 9^30™ and 15*^30™ 

 observations. The true altitudes of the points of observations are 

 said by the superintendent, Colombo Observatory, to be uncertain. 



TRINCOMALEE 



Height of barometer from start to September 1885 was 175 ft. ; 

 October 1885 to September 1894, 75 ft. ; October 1894 to March 

 1910, 12 ft. ; April 1910 to date, 99 (98.6) ft. The data are the means 

 of 9** 30™ and 15'* 30™ readings ; they were copied from tables received 

 from the Superintendent, Colombo Observatory, and are stated to 

 have been reduced to the present height of 99 ft. 



CHINA 



HONGKONG 



Height of barometer from start to date has been 109 ft. The data 

 are the means of the hourly measures of the barograms, standardized 

 by eye observations of the standard barometers. 



ZI-KA-WAI 



Details of changes in position of the l)arometer, thermometers and 

 rain gage are not known. 



