METEOROLOGY. 



[COSrriLED IX the DErAItTMENX OF AGRltUT.TUKE FROM REPORTS MADE BY THE OBSER\'ERS OF THE SMITH- 

 SONIAN INSTITUTION. NOTES ON THE WEATHER FROM REPORTS RECEIVED UP TO JANUARY IG ; TABLES, TO 

 JANUARY 20-1 



DECEMBER, -1869. 



Taile shoicivg the highest and the lowest range of the thermometer, (tvith dates prefixed,) the 

 mean temperature, and the amount of rain-faU, (including melted snoxv,) in inches and 

 tenths, for December, 1869, at the stations, and hj the observers named. Hours of observa- 

 tion, 7 a. m., and 2 and 9 p. m. 



