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canal. Of these we have nineteen years at Colon or Aspin- 
wall, six .years at Gamboa, on the watershed, and fourteen 
years at Panama, Naos island, and Taboga island. Naos is 
a small island in the Gulf of Panama, about a mile south of 
the town, and Taboga is a larger island, about 10 miles south. 
The last six years of the observations at Colon and all those 
at Gamboa and Naos island were taken under the rules of 
the French meteorological service. 
The series at Guatemala City come next in order of im¬ 
portance. They were apparently taken with care, although 
by several different persons, and in part were cared for by 
the director of the astronomical observatory. At Belize the 
number of years is greater, but the series is much broken, be¬ 
ginning in 1848 and ending in 1894. There are probably 
fortyfive years of rainfall observations at Belize existing, 
but they do not seem to have been consulted by any me¬ 
teorologist who has discussed the Central American rainfall, 
are apparently not in print, and no trace of them was found 
when I visited that city several years ago. Most of them 
will probably be found among the papers of Judge S. Cock- 
burn, who took great interest in the rainfall of the colony. 
I have been able to use a publication of his for private cir¬ 
culation, with manuscript additions, sent to the Smithsonian 
Institution in 1870. 
The records of a few years’ observations at San Salvador, 
taken in connection with an astronomical observatory, have 
been published. At the remaining points (twentyone in 
number, making thirty one stations in all; see Table I) the 
observations are more fragmentary, the usual guarantees 
of minute care are generally lacking, and our information 
about details is incomplete. These observations have been 
dug out from many publications, chiefly the Meteorologische 
Zeitschrift and the dozen or so government reports on the 
various proposed canals from Darien to Honduras. In Alta 
Verapaz, a recently formed province of Guatemala, Dr. Karl 
Sapper has lately established a series of stations among 
the coffee planters to study the remarkable rainfall of that 
district. With one station (Salama) in Baja Verapaz he has 
