58 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 90 



BRAZIL 

 Authority. 



Directoria de Meteorologia, Instituto Central, Rio de Janeiro. 



ALTO DA SERRA 



Continuation of precipitation record from volume 79, Smithsonian 

 Misc. Coll. 



BRUSQUE 

 Precipitation. 



This is a new station beginning with 1906. The data are to be 

 found in part III. 



CURITIBA 

 Pressure. 



From 1924 a correction of — 1.2 mm was applied instead of — 1.3 

 as in volume 79, Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 

 Time. 



Local time was used for all observations. 



CUYABA 

 Continuation of records from volume 79, Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 



ESTADO DE SAO PAULO 

 Authority. 



Directoria do Servico Meteorologico do Estado. Directoria do 

 Servico Astronomico e Meteorologico do Estado (since 

 1928). 



The temperature and rainfall data for the State of Sao Paulo 

 were derived from the following sources: 



1887 to 1902: Reports of Commissao Geographica e Geologica 

 de Sao Paulo (Section meteorologique). 



1903 to 1914: Dados Climatologicos por J. N. Belfort Mattos. 



191 5 to 1930: Monthly, annual, or other tables that appear in 

 the Quarterly " Boletim do Agricultural' 



1921 to 1930: Data received in MS. from the Director for six 

 stations. 



The data from October 1924 to March 1926 were not published. 

 Some of the missing values were supplied to R. C. Mossman 

 by the actual Director of the Service, so that it has been 

 possible to control most of the values extracted from the 

 " Boletim do Agricultural" The data that appear refer to 

 the Capital, Igarapava, the most northern station in the State, 



