﻿2 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 78 



society, provisions, and even (at Mount Montezuma, Chile) from 

 water. 



Since January, 1926, these reports have been printed by the United 

 States Weather Bureau on its daily w^eather map. Those who have 

 followed them will have noticed that many days are missing and 

 many rated unsatisfactory. It was to round out these records that 

 the National Geographic Society on March 20, 1925, allotted $55,000 

 to Dr. C. G. Abbot, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Insti- 



FiG. 2.^Mt. Brukkaros. Looking towards the Observatory site near the top of 



the rim at the extreme right. 



tution, and Director of its Astrophysical Observatory, to enable him 

 to select the best site in the Eastern Hemisphere, erect and equip 

 there a solar radiation observatory and maintain it for several years 

 under the title " The National Geographic Society Solar-Radiation 

 Expedition Cooperating with the Smithsonian Institution." 



Accordingly, accompanied by Mrs. Abbot, he sailed from New 

 York on October 31, 1925, examined the advantages of sites in 

 Algeria, Egypt, Baluchistan, and Soiuth West Africa, and at length 

 located the new observatory on Mount Brukkaros, South West 

 Africa. 



