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of a more extended and ultimately of a national system, such 
as those that had long been known in op o this end 
I, in August, 1869, in behalf of the Cincinnati Chamber of 
Commerce, had proposed to the Board of Trade of Chicago a | 
general plan of codperation by which both organizations would 
share in the advantages expected to result from the Weather 
Bulletin. That body, however, through a special committee, 
preferred not to engage in such an enterprise, alone sensible 
of its feasibility, unless the Dearborn Observatory should give 
it the weight of its authority and name; but the other duties 
of Professor Safford seemed to forbid this, and I was forced to 
forego the advantage of such codperation. An editorial in the 
Chicago Evening Journal of August 13-17, served, however, to 
call attention to the Cincinnati enterpri 
_ In November, 1869, occurred at Richmond the annual meet- 
ing of the National Board of Trade. Several of the Cincinnati 
delegates (and especially Mr. John A. Gano, President of the 
in 
ever, anticipated by that of the Hon. C. D. Holton of Milwau- 
kee, who preeniad: 
Lapham. This distinguished observer, to whom I had for some 
of Trade and Commerce and by eminent scientific authorities. 
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of Professor Lapham, “papers and maps in reference to the 
