Results of meteorological observations : made under the direction of the United States Patent Office and the Smithsonian Institution from the year 1854 to 1859, inclusive / being a report of the Commissioner of Patents made at the first session of the Thirty-sixth Congress ; vol. I-II: part I.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

United States. Patent Office.

Contributor:

Bishop, William Darius, 1827-

Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878.

Hough, Franklin B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1822-1885.

Coffin, James H. (James Henry), 1806-1873.

Smithsonian Institution

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Meteorology--North America.

Meteorology.

Phenology.

Storms.

North America.

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington : Govt. Print. Off., 1861-64.

Contents:

I. Letter from the commissioner of patents [William D. Bishop] to the vice-president of the United States. Letter from the secretary of the Smithsonian institution [Joseph Henry] to the commissioner of patents. Introduction. General lists of stations and observers. Reductions of meteorological observations, 1854-1859

II, pt.I. Observations upon periodical phenomena in plants and animals from 1851 to 1859, with tables of the dates of opening and closing of lakes, rivers, harbors, &c., arranged by Franklin B. Hough. Observations relative to three storms in the year 1859; reduced and arranged by Prof. J.H. Coffin.

Notes:

At head of title: 36th Congress, 1st session. Senate. Ex. doc.

Collation, v.1: L, 1219 p.; v.2, pt.1: vii, 538 p.

Smithsonian institution publications no. 157, 182.

Issued also in the Congressional series of U.S. public documents (no. 1052-1053) as House ex. doc. 55, 36th Cong., 1st sess.

OCLC:

7163862