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: pt.1.
Contributors: Bishop, William Darius, 1827-; Henry, Joseph, 1799-1878.; Hough, Franklin Benjamin, 1822-1885.; Coffin, James H. 1806-1873.; Smithsonian Institution.
Publisher: Govt. Print. Off.
Published: 1861
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Subjects: Meteorology -- North America; Phenology; Storms
Notes: At head of title:36th Cong., 1st sess. Senate. Ex. doc.

Smithsonian Institution publications no. 157, 182.

Issued also in the Congressional series of U.S. public documents (no.1052-53) as House ex. doc. 55, 36th Cong., 1st sess.
Table of contents: title: 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 meterological 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.