An Annotated Bibliography of Meteorological Observations in the United States, 1715-1818.
Series: United States. Weather Bureau. Key to meteorological records documentation,; no. 5.11
Published: 1958
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 14
Subjects: Meteorology -- Observations -- Bibliography.; United States -- Climate -- Bibliography.
Genres: Bibliography.
First sentence: Analyses of long climatological series in the United States have been greatly hindrered by the lack of standardized records prior to the establishment of the U. S. Signal Corps Weather Service in 1870.  This deficiency has been pointed out repeatedly, perhaps most recently by Manley [15] in his efforts to extend transatlantic correlation of mean temperatures back through the 19th and 18th centuries. (from the Introduction)
Description: Over eighty systematic, instrumental records have been located in American and British libraries and museums.  They are described as to completeness and nature of contents.  The place of deposition of the manuscripts and references to major published accounts are given where known. (from the Abstract)
Notes: Two graphs are included, as follows:  Fig. 1.   Available temperature records, 1731-1818 (p. 2) and Fig. 2.  Available precipitation records, 1715-1818 (p. 3).

As published, there are page-number errors in the Table of Contents; they have been corrected here.
Table of contents: title: Abstract
pagenum: 1; label: Section 1
title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: Section 2
title: Historical Sketch
pagenum: 1; label: Section 3
title: The Search for Old Records
pagenum: 1; label: Section 4
title: The Records
pagenum: 4; label: Section 5
title: Conclusions
pagenum: 13; label: Section 6
title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 13; title: References
pagenum: 14