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be recorded hourly, from midnight to midnight, on four days in each 

 month, and at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on all other days. The chief 

 object of this arrangement was to ascertain the diurnal variation of 

 the chief elements and to furnish the means of correcting registers 

 to true daily mean values. These stations were also to be furnished 

 with self-recording anemometers. They were as follows : — 



2 in Assam - - - Sibsagar and Goalpara. 



6 in Bengal - - - Patna, Hazaribagh, Cuttack, 



False Point, Saugor Island, 

 and Chittagong. 



2 in North-West Provinces - Agra and Rurki. 



1 in Oudh - - - Lucknow. 



3 in Central Provinces - Nagpur, Jabalpur, and Pack- 



roar hi. 



4 in Bombay - - - Belgaum, Poona, Disa, and 



Karachi. 



2 in Madras ... Bellaiy and Trichinopoly. 

 1 in Burma - - - Rangoon. 



At False Point and Saugor Island stations, which were established 

 chiefly for warnings of storms, the orginal plan of six-hourly 

 observations at 4 and 10 a.m. and p.m. was retained. 



III. Seventy-one third-class observatories, at which two sets of 

 observations of the principal instruments were to be recorded daily, 

 at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. 



The publications of the Meteorological Department were to 

 consist of an annual report on the meteorology of India for each 

 calendar year, giving the abstract of the registers of all stations. 

 together with a discussion of the meteorological features of the 

 year, illustrated by charts of temperature, pressure, and wind 

 directions, and also the original observations (corrected and reduced) 

 of some of the more important stations. The other departmental 

 serial was to be termed " Indian Meteorological Memoirs," and to 

 include such of the work of the officers of the department as did 

 not properly come within the scope of the annual report. 



The library of the Bengal Meteorological Office was transferred 

 to the general office, and was thus rendered available for both 

 departments. It has since been greatly enlarged by purchases and 

 presentations of works. 



During the following year (1876-77) 11 new stations were 

 founded, and an important improvement was effected in the work 



