388 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
quick succession, and each even more violent than the preceding one, swept 
away all these bright prospects and burdened both owners and underwriters with 
heavy losses. The disasters reported in November number 403, involving dam- 
age to property of upward of $2,000,000. These are probably the highest figures 
ever reached in any one month since the navigation of the lakes began. ‘The loss 
of life during the season was considerably less than in 1868. The tables which 
complete our summary are valuable for future reference and should be preserved. 
RECAPITULATION AND COMPARISON. 
1869|1868 
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This memorial was accompanied by the following bill: (R. H. 602.) which 
was introduced in the House of Representatives December 16th, 1869, by the 
Hon. H. E. Paine, and referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to 
be printed. 
A BILL 
To authorize the Secretary of War to provide for taking meteorological obser- 
vations at the military stations in the interior of the continent, and for giving 
notice on the northern lakes and Atlantic seaboard of the approach and force of 
storms. 
Whereas the record of marine disasters on the northern lakes for the years 
eighteen hundred and sixty-eight and eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, shows 
that during the year eighteen hundred and sixty-eight one thousand one hundred 
and sixty-four casualties occurred, involving a loss of three hundred and twenty- 
one lives, and of property of the value of three million one hundred and fourteen 
thousand dollars, and that during the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, one 
thousand nine hundred and fourteen casualties occurred, involving a loss of two 
