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Excerpt from Johns Hopkins University Circulars, Vol. 18: November, 1898 During the first five years of the existence of the Service the investiga tions were confined largely to a study of the general meteorological condi tions of the State. Numerous stations were established in the different counties, volunteer observers having been obtained at a sufficient number of points to render it possible to determine the more important features of the climate of the State. Throughout the same time monthly Meteoro logical Reports, extending through the year, and weekly Crop Bulletins, covering the growing and harvesting seasons, were published. Two bien nial reports to the General Assemblies of 1894 and 1896 were also prepared and subsequently printed with the necessary maps, diagrams, and tables. A series of large Climatic Charts was also published and placed on exhibi tion in the Maryland Building in Chicago at the time of the Columbian Exposition, and Copies of the same were subsequently distributed. Somewhat over a year ago an entire reorganization of the work of the Maryland Weather Service was effected. It seemed desirable to transfer the accumulation of the general climatic data to the Climate and Crop Ser vice of the Weather Bureau, which is much more fully equipped for carry ing on that phase of the work, and to devote the money and energies of the Maryland Weather Service to the study of special problems connected with the climatology of the State. It was thought possible by conducting the work in close cooperation with the State Geological Survey, the State Agricultural institutions, and the U. S. Department of Agriculture to take up lines of research that would be of much permanent value to the people of the State. Arrangements were made for the publication of these investi gations in a new series of reports which should conform in all particulars to those already adopted for the State Geological Survey. These volumes, for which arrangements have now been perfected, will contain the results of investigations upon the climate of the State and will include reports upon the physiography, meteorology, medical climatology, agricultural soils, forestry, hydrography, crop conditions, botany, and zoology of Maryland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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