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16'', local time; from 1889 to date at 8'': the former series were 

 reduced to the latter by applying the corrections contained in the Ind. 

 Metl. Memoirs Vol. XVII, p. XXXI. 



QUETTA 



Height of barometer from start to January 1886 was 5501 ft. ; 

 February 1886 to date, 5502 ft. Data up to 1902 were copied from 

 the Ind. Metl. Memoirs Vol. XVI, where they were reduced to the 

 present height of 5502 ft. From 1879 to 1888 the observations were 

 recorded at 10^ and 16*^, local time; from 1889 to October 1912 at 

 8'\; from November 191 2 to date at 7^\ The lo'' and 16'' data 

 were reduced to the 8'' equivalent by applying the corrections con- 

 tained in Ind. Metl. Memoirs Vol. XVII, p. XXIX. No correction 

 has been applied to reduce the 7^ data to the 8*^ series. 



RANGOON 



Height of barometer from start to October 1902 was 41 ft. ; Novem- 

 ber 1902 to January 1906, 57 ft. ; February 1906 to February 1909, 

 ^6 ft. ; March 1909 to date, 18 ft. Data up to 1902 were given in the 

 Ind. Metl. Memoirs Vol. XVI. where they were reduced to the height 

 of 57 ft. Further corrections of + .039 from start to January 1906 

 and of +.018 from February 1906 to February 1909 were applied to 

 reduce the whole series of data to the present height of 18 ft. From 

 1876 to 1888 the observations were recorded at 10'' and 16^, local 

 time ; from 1889 to date at 8'^ : the former series were reduced to 

 the latter l)y applying the corrections contained in the Ind. Metl. 

 Memoirs \'ol. XVII, p. XXVIII. There were shifts in the position 

 of the thermometer shed in March 1902 and in 1906, but no correc- 

 tions were applied to the thermometer readings. 



SHILLONG 



Height of l)ar()meter from start to date has been 4920 ft. The data 

 arc the means of 8'\ local time, readings. There was a change in 

 the location of the rain gage and in the control of the rainfall regis- 

 tration in June 1902 but no correction was applied to the older rain- 

 fall readings on this account. 



SIMLA 



Height of barometer from start to Tu'bruary 1885 '^^''^^ 7012 ft.: 

 March 1885 to l-'ebruary 1889, 7048 ft.; March 1889 to March 1890, 



