METEOROLOGY. 



FROM THE SMITHSOXIAX INSTITUTION. 



DECEMBER, 1864. 



Table shoicing the highest and lotccst range of the thermometer, (icith dates pre- 

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

 for December, 1864, at the following -places, as given by the observers namtd. 

 Daily observations were made at the haters of 1 a. m. and 2 and 9 p. m. 



Countv. 



Observer's name. 



Date. Max. 



Date. 



Min. 31eau. Kain. 



MAINE. 



North Perry 



Steuben 



Lee 



■SVegt "Waterville... 



Lisbon 



Comishville 



Cornish 



NEW HAMrsHIRE. 



Shelbnrne 



Stratford 



North Bamstead . . 



Claremont 



Do 



VERMO.VT. 



Lunenburg . 

 Craftsbury.. 

 Midilleburv . 



MASSACHUSETTS. 



Sandwich 



Topsfield 



Newbury , 



Now Bedford 



State LimaticHosp'l. 



Mendon 



BnldwinsTille 



Washing-tou Wra. D. Dana. 



...do J.D.Parker... 



Penobscot Edwin Pitman. 



Kennebec B. F. Wilbar . . 



Androscoggin Asa P. Moore.. 



York ' G. W. GnptUl. 



.do. 



Silas West. 



CooB F. Odell 



do Branch Brown... 



Belknap Chjis. H. Pitman. 



Sullivan Arthur Chase 



...do S. O. Mead 



Esses n. A. Cutting ... 



Orleans Jan. A. Paddock . 



Addison i H.A.Sheldon... 



Barnstable N. Barrows. M. D.. 



Essex A.M. Merriam 



do Jno. H. Caldwell . . 



Bristol Sam'l Rodman 



■Worcester F. IL Rice 



....do Jno.G.Metcalf.M.D 



do Rev. E. Dewhurst . , 



Amherst j Hampshire Prof. E. S. Snell 



Springfield ' Hampden ' J. Weatherhead 



AVestfield do Rev. E. Davis 



Williams College . .. Berkshire Prof. A. Hopkins ... 



Richmond I do Wm. Bacon 



28 



1,3 

 7 



28 



51 



53 



48 



53 



53 I 



54 



51 

 52 



51 I 



53 I 



20,23 

 23 

 23 



22.5 

 23.9 

 22.6 

 22.9 

 23.8 

 2.3.8 

 22.9 



23.1. 

 19. 5 



25.4 

 25.7 



22.6 

 19.5 

 26.fi 



33.2 

 33.4 

 28.7 

 33.0 

 29.5 

 24.6 

 24.3 

 30.2 

 28.6 

 28.0 

 26.6 

 2o. 6 



In. 

 5.56 

 9.37 

 3.80 

 3.60 

 4.25 

 4.87 

 4.68 



3.42 

 5.19 



5.00 

 3.62 



4.41 

 4.41 



4.18 

 3.67 



4.48 

 4.63 

 4.45 

 4.98 

 4.18 

 9.67 



