METEOROLOGY. 
[Compiled in the Department of Agriculture, from the reports made by the observers for 
the Smithsonian Institution. ] 
JANUARY, 1868. 
Table showing the highest and lowest range of the thermometer, (with dates pre- 
Jixed,) the mean temperature, and amount of rain and melted snow, (in inches 
and tenths,) for January, 1868, ‘at the following places, as given by the 
observers named. Daily observations were made at the hours of 7 a.m. and 
2 and 9 p.m. 
Stations, &c. 
MAINE, 
Steuben . 
Williamsburg 
West Waterville... 
Gardiner 
% 
NEW HAMPSHIRE, 
Stratford 
North Barnstead.... 
Claremont 
Shelburne 
eeeecccens 
VERMONT. 
Lunenburg 
North Craftsbury - .- 
Randolph 
Middlebury 
St. Albans 
Averages 
MASSACHUSETTS, 
Kingston 
Topsfield 
Lawrence 
Georgetown 
Newbury 
Milton 
Brookline ......-... 
Counties: Observers. 
Washington ..... JoD barker een oe 
Piscataquis......| Edwin Pitman...... 
Kennebec ......- Bs He WWalb Utes stne 
ass cho ssga5s5acsne R. H. Gardiner...-.- 
Androscoggin....| Asa P. Moore...-...- 
Oxtord -eeneeeme 4 Howard D. Smith -. 
VOWS DY sss00s5a5c Silas West-.-....---- 
sondilihs scasssissa+ G. W. Guptill.....-. 
(ChE so-85580550e Branch Brown....-- 
Belknap..-.....- C. H. Pitman....... 
Sullivan: enc. =. Arthur Chase......- 
WOOS pence cee iy Oye 5a Sense 
Essex ..---....-. H. A. Cutting.-.-.-.-- 
Orleans .......-. Edward P. Wild ..-. 
Orange. .-...--. Charles S. Paine ---- 
PAA GINO ele weinicinie H. A. Sheldon. .....- 
Franklin -....... A. H.I. Gilman .-..-. 
Plymouth ....... G. S. Newcomb .... 
ASSOX < cccnceceas S. A. Merriam .... -- 
nos Seessns p65 John Fallon .......- 
Hoof) ssoesogasds S. A. Nelson ......-. 
Boat Meese 45eqq5o- John H. Caldwell. .. 
INOTLOMK = es aslo ais Rey..A. K. Teele. ... 
doce eee Rey. J. B. Perry .... 
Rain 
Max Min. | Mean | and 
Date temp. Date temp.| temp. |melt’d 
Veo op | ee 
° ° ° In. 
24 38 19|—8 15.8 | 4.93 
23 30 1l | —14 10.6 | 2.05 
2, 24 38 19 | —11 16.1) 2527 
24 40 | 19,31) —3 17.6 | 2.86 
Fs dese hel seeeae BL | — 44). ccc cents Ae 
2,8 38 11 | —18 14.9 | 2.00 
2 38 12;—4 16.6 | 4.10 
2 35 12 0}, 17.8) 4513 
wanee eel seeces|seceesce| tesa NES PSRs 
23 32 13 | —15 127 e380 
24 44 13 3 21.1) 2.95 
2,3 39 13/—9 18.0} 2.65 
13 38 12) — 164 CSeceeee 2. 50 
ie eeedl eee eee 17.3| 2.60 
—sz 
2 33 13 | —16 12.7} 1.88 
3 37 14|}—3 17.1} 2.14 
3 36 7 | —20 15.1 | 2.52 
2 37 6 | —21 13.4.) Lia 
23 37 28 | —18 11.74 0:25 
WAS dic |laooden| Secsecae paca. 14.0} 1.70 
3, 7, 23 42} 10,13 7 26.0 | 4.45 
2,3 39 17 4 20.1] 3.46 
3 4\ 17 3 21.6] 3.06 
3 44 17 5 22.6) 2.41 
3 40 |12,13, 17 4 OTT IW ameetee 
3 45 | 13;17 4 22.0} 2.91 
20 45 6|—2 23/6 |\eenle 
