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in advance, may be quite correctly given or revealed. If the Signal Office does 
not do this in course of time, some enterprising outsider will be sure to, and he 
will use their knowledge.and material to accomplish it. 
It would seem that it was full time that they added this auxiliary feature to 
their present daily indications. The intelligent world at least will be charitable 
toward them, and will not hold them too closely to the mark, and if they have 
the intelligent and generous people on their side, those who are able to understand 
the whys and wherefores, they need not fear the ignorant and exacting. The more 
the weather subject is understood, the more charity will the intelligent people of 
the country have for this office, and the more will they appreciate its labors, and 
the less respect will this same intelligent class have for all those would-be weather- 
prophets, who are assuming so much ignorance on the part of the public at large, 
and pretending to know so much more than other people, and more than the facts 
in the case will warrant. It is full time that the intelligent people of the world 
took hold of this subject and mastered it. They will find enough in it to fully re- 
pay them for the pains, and it will protect them against the imposition that at 
present they are so susceptible to and unprotected against. 
KANSAS WEATHER SERVICE OBSERVATIONS AT WASHBURN 
COLLEGE, TOPEKA. 
BY PROF. J. T. LOVEWELL. 
Our last report closed February 2oth, and the eight days succeeding gave us 
milder weather with no precipitation or storms, and the lowest temperature was 
8°. During the first two decades in March the weather has further moderated. 
The heaviest fall of snow of this period was on the 7th, when about four inches 
of damp snow fell. It also snowed on the 2d and 17th; and rained on the roth 
and rsth. The most noticeable phenomenon was the extremely low barometer 
on the 11th, when the reading was 28.12 at 9 p. m.; this isnearly .3 of an inch 
lower than observed at this station for more than two years, No storm occurred 
here during or immediately after this. There was thunder and lightning on the 
14th and rsth. The first prairie fire occurred on the 13th. The highest tempera- 
ture was 59°, on the 15th. ‘The pressure has been below the average during the 
past month. The weather has been rather cold for the season, but we must re- 
gard it on the whole as favorable to vegetation, and there has been no premature 
starting of the buds. The following averages by decades will give a more com, ~ 
plete statement of these facts. Robins were first seen here this year on Feb. 22. 
