REPORT OF METEOROLOGIST. 



Presidekt Fernald, Meteorologist to the Station. 



MAINE experiment STATION. 



Lat. 44\ 54\ 2", N. Long. 68% 40\ ll'\ W. 



In presenting my fourth annual report as Meteorologist to the 

 Maine Experiment Station, I desire to state definitely as in 

 former reports, that the object sought "is not so much the observ- 

 ing and reporting of general atmospheric phenomena as the care- 

 ful study of the special meteorological conditions which are more 

 or less intimately connected with practical agriculture." 



In order to secure trustworthy results, it is necessary that 

 observations directed toward a solution of any problem in Meteor- 

 ology be continued through a series of years. Accordingly, in 

 presenting my first report, a plan of summarizing observations 

 and deducing conclusions was adopted, which should be suited to 

 the presenting of like data covering any number of years. 



The present report is made in accordance with the prearranged 

 plan and includes in addition to the results of the three pre- 

 ceding years those obtained from about eleven thousand obser- 

 vations taken during the year 1892. 



The deductions, therefore, of this report are based upon more 

 than forty thousand independent observations. 



The instruments have remained unchanged in position during 

 the four years for which this report is made, and the greater part 

 of the observations have been taken by one observer. 



In presenting the arrangement of instruments and other neces- 

 sary descriptive or explanatory data, I draw freely from my 

 report of last year, simply adapting its statements so far as 

 needful to the more extended period of time. 



The most of the instruments employed were manufactured by 

 H. J. Green, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Mr. Robert H. Fernald of 



