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fostering care of the state should be more fully extended to the acade- 
mies, and the appropriation of money to them be increased. 
The academies, too, are the great source of teachers of common 
schools. The supply for a great normal school will be scarcely 
perceived among two millions of inhabitants. The academies must 
send forth ten to its one. A famine of knowledge would follow the 
abandonment of the academies. There can be no doubt that the prime 
movers of the mind of this great state will continue and extend the intel- 
lectual machinery which they have put in such successful operation and 
which has already produced such beneficial results. 
The meteorological part of the report demands more than the pass- 
ing notice now to be given. Thirty nine academies in all the sections 
of the state, have reported their observations on the temperature and 
winds and weather, and most of them the quantity of water fallen. 
Four academies have given their regular observations on the barometer, 
viz.—Millville Academy in Orleans county, the New York Institution 
for the Deaf and Dumb, North Salem Academy in Westchester county, 
and Rochester Collegiate Institute in the county of Monroe, two in the 
southern and two in the northern part of the state. The temperature 
is required to be taken in the coldest part of the day, just before sun- 
rise, in the hottest part of the day, and about an hour after sunset. The 
daily mean is to be taken, and the mean of each half month, and of 
the whole month, and then of the whole year, at each place. The 
prevailing winds and weather are to be taken for each half day, and the 
general direction of the weather, is to be given in a tabular result. 
From all these observations, the report contains a grand abstract of 
facts. 
For example, the mean temperature of the state for 1844, is 
46°:70 Fah. 
“ ~ a ss 1825 to 1836, 47°55“ 
i 8 4 cig 1836 to 1845, 45-92" 
Quantity of rain from 1825 to 1836 is 35-107 inches. 
m in for 1844 is 32°44 
The coldest days were between Jan. 25 and 31, inclusive. 
The warmest day was, in some places, in June, and in others, in 
July, August, or September. 
Wind from the N. W. occurs on more days than from any other 
quarter of the horizon. The course of the prevailing winds is given, p. 
187, for the whole state, from the west, but Prof. Coffin has shown the 
* Mean temperature of state for last 19 years, 469-72. 
t Quantity of rain from 1835 to 1845, 34-25 inches. 
Average for last 19 years, 33°93 
