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The thanks of tlie Board of Regents are due to the following gentlemen 

 who have undertaken the labor and responsibility of examining memoirs 

 which have been submitted to them. It is proper to observe that the 

 commissioners have no means of verifying, by their own experience, the 

 correctness of the statements presented to them for examination, and there- 

 fore they cannot be expected to vouch for more than the general character 

 of the memoir. 



John Torrey, M. D., 

 Co'onel J. J. Abert, 

 Lieut. M. F. Maury, 

 Lieut. Charles H. Davis, 

 Professor Stephen Alexander, 

 Professor Benjamin Peirce, 

 Professor VV. C. Bond, 

 Major A. Mordecai, 

 Captain Frederick A. Smith, 

 Lieut. M. L. Smith, 

 L. Gale, M. D., 

 C. D. Meigs, M.D., 



T. W. Harris, M. D., 

 Professor E. ^lisbury, 

 Protessor Gibbs, 

 J.E. Holbrook, M. D., 

 Professor Louis Agassiz, 

 Professor Charles Davies, 

 Professor Hackley, 

 Charles C. Page, M. D., 

 Right Rev. Bishop Alonzo Potter, 

 Brantx- Mayer, esq., 

 ColonelJ. D. Graham. 

 T. H, Lane, esq. 



A list of observers from whom monthly meteorolooical returns have been re- 

 ceived at the Smithsonian Institution during the year 1S49. 



MAINE. 



Samuel H. Merrill, Old Town. 

 Milton Welch, Hoidton. 

 George B. Barrows, Frijtburg. 

 James G. Garland, Biddeford. 

 Rufus Buck, Bucksport . 

 S. A. Eveleth, Winahani. 



Joshua Bardett, Whitehead. 

 J. D. Parker, Steuben. 

 Stephen Gilman, Bangor. 

 S. Eveleth, Patten. 

 George Prince, Thomaston. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



William Prescott, Concord . 

 Robot C. Mack, Londonderry. 

 Rev. L. W. Leonard, Dublin. 



Thomas B. Laighton, Isle of Shoals. 

 Doctor Charles Chase, U. S. Navy, 



Portsmouth. 



VERMONT. 



Rev. Zadock Thompson, Z??/r/i/i5-^o?i. Professor W. H. V<\.\kex , Middhbury . 



Charles C. Frost, Brattleboro. 

 D. P. Thompson, Montpelier. 



R. M. Manly, Randolph. 



