14 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I05 



BURMA 

 See Notes under India. 



AKYAB 



Pressure. 



The data for 1 931 -1940 have been reduced to 20 ft. 



MANDALAY 



Site. 



The site of the Observatory was changed on June 29, 1934. Suit- 

 able corrections to temperature and rainfall data have been 

 applied to make them correspond to the old site (see table i, 

 p. 19). 

 Pressure. 



Hb was changed from 250 ft. to 252 ft. on June 21, 1934. Pres- 

 sure data refer to the later Hb of 252 ft. 



CEYLON 



Authority. 



Colombo Observatory, Colombo. 

 Stations. 



Colombo, Ilambantota, Nuwara Eliya, and Trincomalee. 



TRINCOMALEE 



Site. 



The barometer was shifted in July 1935 to a new site at 24 ft. 

 above mean sea level. Subsequent readings have been cor- 

 rected to 99 ft. by subtracting .075 in. 



CHINA 



FORT BAYARD 



Authority. 



Service Meteorologique, Hanoi, Tonkin, French Indo-China. 

 Pressure. 



^(ist and 2d Max.-fist and 2d Min.). 

 Temperature. 



Thermometer in an Eififel shelter. 



