PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OP WASHINGTON. 



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The following members have been elected during the year : — 



Frederic A. Sawyer, 

 Orlando M. Poe, 

 Isaiah Hanscom, 

 Henry H. C. Dunwoody, 

 William M. Mew, 

 Leonard D. Gale, 

 Henry R. Rathbone, 

 Elliott Coues, 

 Frederic W. Dorr, 

 Hugh Ewing, 

 Charles Ewing, 

 James T. Gardner, 

 John W. Pov/ell, 

 John Sherman, 

 Samuel C. Busey, 

 William Lee, 

 Charles Henry Davis, 

 George B Goode, 

 Robert Ridgway, 



James W. Milner, 

 Henry Yarrow, 

 Archibald R. Marvine, 

 Edwin E. Howell, 

 John M, Wood worth, 

 Ormond Stone, 

 JosiAH Curtis, 

 John Stearns, 

 Edward 0. Graves, 

 Frank W. Clarke, 

 John W. Chickering, 

 Henry Garne.vT, 

 Henry W. Henshaw, 

 AD. Wilson, 

 A. C. Peale, 

 David D. Porter, 

 Charles Warren, 

 John Eaton, 

 John J. Knox. 



Mr. J. W. Chickering read a paper 



on the correlation of the winds and the temperatures op 

 the surface waters of the ocean along the coast of new 

 hampshire. 



(abstract.) 



During the years 18Y0-'74, between the 16th July and the 

 15th August, a series of observations has been made at Hampton 

 Beach, N. H , numbering 98 in all, and including temperature 

 of air and water, direction and force of wind, and state of tide. 

 The extremes of surface temperature have been 52° and 72° Fahr. 



19 observations gave a temperature above 65°; 12 gave a 

 temperature below 55^, of which 11 were during 1874. 



All the high temperatures were noted in connection with 

 Mn'nds from the sea ; all the low temperatures with land winds. 

 The averages for each year were as follows : — 



