20 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I05 



SIMLA 



Site. 



The thermometer and the rain gage are on the roof of the Central 

 Telegraph Office. Height of roof is about 80 ft. above the 

 ground. Height of the thermometer is 4^ ft. above the roof, 

 and height of rain gage is 4 J ft. above the ground. (See 

 table I, p. 19.) 



SYRIA 



BEIRUT 



Authority. 



American University, J. A. Brown, Director, Observatory, 

 Beirut. 



THAILAND 

 BANGKOK 

 Authority. 



Section of IMeteorology, Hydrographic Service, C. Bunnag, 

 Sr. Lt. R.T.N., Bangkok. 

 General Note. 



Records from 193 1 to 1936 of observations at Rangsit are given 

 for Bangkok. This is because Bangkok started to make ob- 

 servations only in the year 1937. These two stations, how- 

 ever, are in such close proximity to one another that their 

 variations are more or less the same. Since Bangkok Sta- 

 tion started to operate, Rangsit's observations have been 

 discontinued. 



UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS (ASIA) 



Authority. 



Official Weather Service, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 

 Time. 



All the observations have been made with reference to local time. 

 Pressure. 



The values of pressure have been corrected to 0° C. (;^2° F.) and 



gravity at 45° latitude. 

 The means of pressure from 1931 to 1935 have been computed 

 in accordance with the observations made at 7'', 13'', and 21*' 

 by applying the following formula: ^(7*'-t-i3'' + 2i''). 



