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islands of Malden, Howland, and Baker noted regularly stormy 
weather with Westerly winds once every ten years, which, he said, 
occured particularly during the winter months. This was true 
for example, he said, in I867and 1868 for the Howland and Baker 
area. 
Due to the overall scarcity of raeterological information 
concerning Howland, any information, even that supported only 
by memory, as in the above case, is of value. Therefore certain 
data such as wind direction which could be gathered by the Pacifid 
Project would be of particular value in an overall pESliifiS weather 
picture of the Howland area. It should be especially promising 
to devote greater attention to weather phoenomena in this area 
for usually greater changes take place in the equatorial regions 
from year to year than we are in the nabit of expecting (Enoch,192/) 
and according to our concepts on the coherence of the system of 
the Earth’s atmosphere they must affect changes in other parts 
of the Earth as well* 
