450 WRITINGS OF JOSEPH HENRY. [1865 



The observations thus far have been taken without remun- 

 eration, but the importance of the system has become so well 

 recognized, that the Canadian government has decided to 

 establish ten permanent stations, in addition to the observa- 

 tories at Toronto and Kingston, distributed so as to afford 

 the most complete information relative to the climatic fea- 

 tures of the whole province. The points selected are Wind- 

 sor, Goderich, Stratford, Simcoe, Barrie, Hamilton, Peter- 

 borough, Belleville, Pembroke, and Cornwall; that is, two 

 stations on Lake Erie, one on Lake Huron, three on Lake 

 Ontario, one on Lake Simcoe, one on the Ottawa river, one 

 on the bay of Quinte, one on the St. Lawrence, near the 

 eastern extremity of the province, and two in the interior of 

 the country. The records made at the public schools of 

 Canada have been furnished to the Smithsonian Institution, 

 as well as to the committee on immigration of the New York 

 House of Assembly, for the purpose of furnishing facts rela- 

 tive to the climate — of importance to settlers ; and recently 

 the department of royal engineers has applied for the re- 

 turns, with a view to the consideration of their bearing on 

 questions of defence. To secure a greater degree of respon- 

 sibility, and to promote the efficiency of the system, the gov- 

 ernment has provided for the payment of fifty cents a day 

 to the teachers of the grammar schools at the stations before 

 enumerated, as remuneration for the service rendered. 



Under the direction of the distinguished academician Kup- 

 fer, there is established over the vast Russian territory a 

 network of thirty meteorological stations, where are noted 

 the various changes of the atmosphere as to temperature, 

 pressure, moisture, &c. The most northern of these stations 

 is at Hammerfest, in 70° 41' north latitude, 21° 26' east 

 longitude from Paris, and the most southern is at Tiflis, in 

 41° 42' north latitude, and 42° 30' east longitude. 



A like system of simultaneous observations has been for 

 several years in operation in Great Britain and Ireland, in 

 connection with the Board of Trade, and under the direction 

 of the late Admiral Fitzroy. 



Other and similar systems of meteorology have been 



