TRANSACTIONS 



ALBANY INSTITUTE. 



Art. 1. Abstracts of Meteorological Observations made at the 

 city of Albany, and calculations tending to establish its mean 

 temperature, V T. Romeyn Beck, M. D. 



ReadFebrn»ry7,1833. 



Several years have now elapsed since a regular series of meteor- 

 ological observations was commenced in this place. I have sup- 

 posed that it might be interesting to c( 11 t 1 ta n their 



The series is not, however, perfectly complete, being made at 

 considerable intervals from each other. The earliest is the obser- 

 vations recorded by our venerable first vice-president, Simeon De 

 Witt, for the years 1795 and 1796. These are to be found in the 

 Transactions of the Society for the promotion of Agriculture, the 

 Arts, &c. vol. 1, p. 287. They were made, as I am informed by 

 him, in Dock (now Dean,) street. 



Subsequent to this, tables were successively kept by the late 

 Dr. Low and Dr. Eights. Those of the former are either unfor- 

 tunately lost, or if preserved, are too imperfect to be available. 

 Dr. Eights' comprise the years 1813 and 1814, and have been 

 published in the 3d vol. of the Transactions of the Society for the 

 promotion of Useful Arts. The Institute is also in possession, by 

 donation from Dr. Eights, of the original MS. tables. I have 

 carefuily examined these, and the results have been accurately as- 

 certained for this communication. They were made three times a 

 day, viz at 7 A. M., 3 P. M. and 9 P. M. 



The observations for IS 13 were made, as I am informed by Dr. 

 Eights, at the north side of Steuben-street, near Middle-Alley ; 

 those for 1814 in North Pearl-street, in the house south of and ad- 

 joining Judge Woodworth's. 



