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FROM THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



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

 felling iu the mouth of December, and then the comparison between the weather 

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

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

 compares with the average of other years. 



Table sJioioivg the lagJiest and lowest range of tJic thcrwometer, (iritJi Sates pre- 

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

 for December, 1863, at the folJoicing places, as given by the observers named. 

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



TEMPERATURE AND RAIN OF DECESfBER, 1863. 



Place. 



County. 



Observer's name. 



MAIXE. 



Lisbon Androscoggin. 



West Waterville. 



Cornisbville 



North Perry 



Steuben 



Williajnsburg 



HEW HAMPSHIRE. 



North Littleton 



Littleton 



Plymouth 



Stratford 



Claremont 



VERMONT. 



Rutland . . . 

 Brandon... 

 Lunenburg 

 Craftsbury 

 Burlington 



MASSACHUSETTS. 



New Bedford 



Amherst , 



Topsfield , 



Mendon 



Baldwmsville 



Sandwich 



Williamsviile 



Springfield , 



"Westfield 



RHODE ISLAND. 



Providence 



CONNECTICUT. 



Kennebec .. 



York 



"Washington 



...do 



Piscataquis . , 



Grafton 

 ...do... 



...do. .. 



Coos 



Sullivan. 



Rutland.... 



...do 



Essex 



Orleans 



Chittenden . 



Bristol 



Hampshire 



Essex 



Worcester . 



...do 



Barnstabla. 

 Berkshire . . 

 Hampden.. 

 ...do 



Pomfret 



New Haven 



Asa P. Jloore.. 

 B. F. Wilbur . . 

 G. W. Guptill . 

 Wm. D. Dana . 

 J. D. Parker . . 

 Edwin Pitman . 



Date. Max. 



Rufus Smith 



Robert C. Whiting. 



J. S. Ryan 



Branch Brown 



Arthur Chase 



Stephen O. Mead... 



David Buckland 



Hiram A. Cutting. .. 

 James A. Paddock.. 

 McK. Petty 



Samuel Rodman . . . 

 Prof. E. S. Snell. . . 

 JohnG. CaldweU.. 



John G. Metcalf 



Rev. E. Dewhurst . 

 N. Barrows, M. D . 

 Prof. A. Hopkins . . 



J. Weatherhuad 



Rev. E. Davis 



Providence Prof. A. Caswell 



Windham . . 

 New Haven 



Rev. D. Hunt 13 



! D. C. Leavenworth . 14 



4 



.5 



5 



13 



13 



2,14 



11 

 11 



22 



11 



10,11 



11 

 23 

 21 

 22 

 23 

 10,21 

 11 

 11 

 23 



10,22 



Min. I Mean. 



