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PARAGUAY 



Authority. 



Direccion de Meteorologia, Capt. Teofilo Sanchez, Director, 

 Asuncion, Paraguay. 



The Director writes : "The data sent are not so complete as 

 desired owing to the fact that the meteorological service did 

 not function officially until the year 1933, and the data ob- 

 tainable earlier are from other sources and are not entirely 

 comparable." 

 Pressure. 



The hours of observation of pressure as well as the Hb are 

 different from those for the records published in Smithsonian 

 Misc. Coll., vols. 79 and 90, and no corrections to pressure 

 were attempted. — Editor. 

 Precipitation. 



No data received from Mision Inglesa. 



PERU 



Authority. 



Direccion General de Comunicaciones y Meteorologia, Lima. 



SURINAM 



PARAMARIBO 

 Authority. 



Landbouwproef station, Paramaribo. Prof. Dr. G. Stahel, Di- 

 rector of the Agricultural Experiment Station in Surinam, 

 writes : "Dr. C. Braak of De Bilt calculated the correction 

 from the (8''+ 14**+ 18^) : 3 temperatures for the 24-honrs 

 average after a study of the thermograph records. He found 

 — 0.9° C., and a recent comparison of the thermometers with 

 meteorological thermometers received 4 years ago from 

 De Bilt show that the corrected readings of the thermometers 

 used must be about 0.2° too high. However, no normal 

 thermometer is here in Surinam to state it exactly. There- 

 fore, 0.9° -1-0.2° = I.I ° C. is to be subtracted from the average 

 daily temperatures to reduce them to the mean of 24 hours. 

 The true average temperature for the year therefore is 

 26.4° C., the same as C. Braak gives for 1924- 1933 (C. 

 Braak, The Climate of the Netherlands West Indies, 

 Koninklijk Nederlandsch Meteorologisch Instituut No. 102, 

 Mededeelingen en Verhandelingen 36). 



