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tology, however contradictory these two facts may appear to be. 
Germany probably has the most thorough record-investigators of 
climate, but the German government does not do for this science 
what our government is doing yearly. Our Weather Bureau is 
the envy of all students of climatology. Facts pertaining to 
weather data have right of way on the telegraph wires of this 
country for a certain period every day. In European countries, 
where militarism usually can accomplish arbitrarily what it 
wishes, they have not yet been able to secure for weather data 
the necessary special privileges in the telegraph system. The 
United States can marshal an array of weather data for a given 
period of years that is not equalled by any other government. 
Early development in America. No discussion of climatology 
in the United States, and especially a discussion that pertains to 
the Buckeye State, is complete without alluding to the fact that 
the first weather maps issued in this country were published at 
Cincinnati. Cleveland Abbe, the leading American student of 
climatology today, aided by the Cincinnati Chamber of Com- 
merce, in 1869 instituted the first weather service. Through 
certain voluntary efforts of associates, Mr. Abbe collected data 
as near and as far from Cincinnati as he could get it, and on the 
basis of this data he published information about the weather. 
The following year the Federal government organized a national 
service under the War Department. In 1891 this meteorological 
work was transferred to the Department of Agriculture, as the 
Weather Bureau. Cleveland Abbe has been associated with 
American climatology from its beginning; the work he did while 
Director of the Cincinnati Observatory gives the subject special 
historical interest. 
WEATHER BUREAU SERVICE IN OHIO 
The three districts. Our state is divided into three sections, 
the Northern, Middle and Southern. By defining the Middle 
section we have the others properly distinguished. The northern 
margin of the middle section begins on the east with the northern 
boundary of Columbiana county, and follows due west the nearest 
county line, ending with the northern boundary of Van Wert 
county; the southern margin starts with the northern boundary of 
Monroe county, and proceeds westward to the northern boundary 
