METEOROLOGY. 



FROM THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



The followiDg tables sliow, first, the temperature and the amount of rain 

 falling in the mouth of October, and then the comparison between the weather 

 for that month of this year and of the same mouth in five years previous. An 

 examination of the last column in the last table will show how this October 

 compares with the average of other years. 



Tahle sJioivhg tJie JiigJiest and lowest range of the thermometer , (xintli dates pre- 

 fixed,) the mean temperature, and amount of rain, (in inches and tenths,) 

 for October, 1863, at the foil oiv in g places, as given hy the observers named. 

 Daily observations toere made at the hours ofl a. m., and 2 and 9 p. m. 



TEMPERATURE AND RAIN OF OCTOBER, 1863. 



Place. 



County. 



Observer's name. 



Date. 



MAINE. 



Cornishville . . 

 ■Waterville . . . 

 Williamsburg. 



Foxcroft 



Linneus 



NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



Plymoiith 



Korth Littleton . 



Littleton 



Stratford 



Claremont 



VERMONT. 



Burlington . 



Rutland 



Craftsbury . 

 Wilmington 



Brandon 



Springfield. 



MASSACHUSETTS. 



Mendon 



New Bedford 



Westfleld 



Topsfield 



RHODE ISLAND. 



Providence 



York 



Kennebec .. 

 Piscataquis . 



...do 



Aroostook . . 



Grafton 

 ...do... 

 ...do... 



Coos 



Sullivan. 



Chittenden . 



Rutland 



Orleans 



Windham .. 



Rutland 



Windsor 



Worcester . 



Bristol 



Hampden. . 

 Essex 



G. W. Guptill 



B. F. Wilbur 



Edwin Pitman 



Mark Pitman 



A. G. &Miss Young . 



Jabez S. Ryan 



Rufus Smith 



Robert C. Whiting. 



Branch Brown 



Arthur Chase 



McK. Petty 



Stephen O. Mead. .. 

 James A. Paddock.. 



C. T. Alvord 



David Buckland 



Rev. J. W. Chickering 



Jno. George Mctcalf . 



Samuel Rodman 



Rev. Emerson Davis 

 John H. Caldwell... 



18 

 19 

 19 

 1,19 

 19 



29 



28 



29 



27,29 



29 



49.4 



Providence 



Prof. A. Caswell. ... 1, 15 72 27, 29 



48.6 

 47.4 

 47.3 



56.0 



37.1 

 47.5 

 41.3 

 49.0 



46.7 

 49.4 

 44.4 

 55.9 

 50.6 

 50.0 



53.1 

 54.8 

 48.9 

 52.3 



51.4 



In. 

 4.12 



4.55 

 6,18 

 6.46 

 2.37 



4.60 



2.43 

 3.98 

 3.95 



3.90 



2.90 

 5.38 



2.88 

 4.25 



3.10 

 1.09 

 5.26 



3.07 



