54 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 79 



hourly readings of a Richard Thermograph. No corrections 

 are made except those needed to reduce the thermograph 

 readings to the observed vakies. 

 Precipitation. 



The monthly and annual totals of precipitation are from a Tonne- 

 lot rain gage and a recording Richard pluviometer. 



RUMANIA 

 BUCURESTI (BUCHARRST) 



r*RESSURE. 



For the period i88i to June 1884 the hours of observation were 

 7'', 14'', and 21'' and for the period of July 1884 to 1925 they 

 were 8^\ 14^, and 20^ 



From 1 881 -1 888 the observations were in Herestrau at the agri- 

 cultural college; from 1S89-1925 they were in Filaret at the 

 Central Meteorological Institute. 



The values are not corrected to Lat. 45° because the latitude of 

 Bucharest is 44° 25' and the correction would be less than 

 0.05 mm. 

 Temperature. 



The observations are not homogeneous because the site of the 

 station has been subjected to considerable changes. 



(a) 1857-1862, inclusive, the observations were made by Dr. 

 Barasch at the hours of 6'\ i6'\ and 22'\ 



(b) 1 863- 1 870, inclusive, the station M^as located at Military Hos- 

 pital in the street Stirbei-Voda, in the center of the city. 

 During this interval the observations were made by Dr. Fess- 

 mann, specialist in mineralogy, and by Dr. Davila, doctor 

 of medicine. The hours of observation were 6'', 14'^ and 22'\ 



(c) 1871-1888, inclusive, the station was located at the college 

 of agriculture at Herestrau in the northern part of the city. 

 The hours of observation were, for the period 1 871- 1880, 

 6'\ 14''' and 21^^; for the period 1881 to June 1884, 7'^ 14'' 

 and 2i\ and for the period July 1884 to 1888, 8^ 14", 

 and 2o'\ 



(d) 1889-1925, the station was located in the Central Meteoro- 

 logical Institute at Filaret in the central part of the city. The 

 observations were made at 8'\ 14'^ and 2o'\ local time. 

 Up to 1881 the means of temperature were the means of the 

 three daily observations divided by three. 



