METEOROLOGY. 



COMPILED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUKE FKOM REPORTS MADE BY THE OBSERVERS OF THE SMITH- 

 SONIAN INSTITUTION. 



Note. — Observers aro respectfully solicited to send their reports as early after the close of the inonth 

 as possible, with means duly made out, and names of station and observer filled in. The following 

 tables are from reports received up to June 18 ; many unsightly gaps will be noticed. Those received 

 later can be u-sed in the annual report ."vnd by the Smithsonian Institution, but they are desired for our 

 monthly also. 



Table showing the liiijlw^t and lowest range of the thermometer, (with dates prefixed,) the mean 

 tempei-ature, and amount of rain-fall, (in inches and tenths,) for April and May, 1870, at 

 the stations named. Daily ohsei'vations at 7 a. m., and 2 and 9 j;. m. 



