TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



ARTICLE IL (353.) Tables and Results of the Precipitation, in Rain and Snow, 

 IN THE United States: and at some Stations in adjacent parts of 

 North America, and in Central and South America. Collected 

 BY THE Smithsonian Institution, and Discussed under the Direction 

 of Joseph Henry and Spencer F. Baird, Secretaries. By Charles 

 A. Schott. Second edition. Published May, 1881. 4to., 270 pp. 5 plates. 

 5 charts. 



Preface to First Edition .... 



Preface to Second Edition 



Collection and tabulation of records and residts 



Special references to records 



Description of rain gauges and directions for ol)serving . 



Explanatory remarks on records 



Tables of aqueous precipitation in the United States. (Tables A and B.) 1 



Explanation of Table A of average rain-fall for each month, season and year , 



Explanation of Table B of amount of rain-fall for a series of years 



Generalization of Tabular Results and Construction of Rain-charts of tin 

 United States ....... 



General character of the distributi(jn of the rain during the year 



Distribution of rain iu Summer . 



Distribution of rain (and snow) in Winter 



Distribution of rain in Spring 



Distribution of rain iu Autumn . 



Investigation of the annual fluctuation in the rain-fall 



Permanency of the annual fluctuation 



Causes of the annual fluctuation 



Distribution of rainy days in the year . 



luvestigation of the secular changes iu the rain-fall 



List of Illustrations . 



List of Meteorological Stations 

 List of Observers 



Index 



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Pi>ates I til V. Aiuiiuil rtuctuatiuu iu the rain-fall at stations of long series 

 of observatiiiu.i, and shuwing the same characteristics in their annual distri- 

 bution in the rain; referred to on pages 196, 197. 



Charts, five in luituber, showing the geograi)hieal dislrilnition nf rain (and 

 melted snow) in llu; United States for the whole year, and (lie Spring, 

 Summer, Aulunui, and AVintcr seasons, respectively; referred to on jiages 

 187-193. 



