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Excerpt from The Practical Use of Meteorological Reports: And Weather-Maps The office Division of Telegrams and Reports for the Benefit of Commerce is organized for the preparation, receipt, and use of these reports. At every station three observations are taken daily, at the same moment of actual (not local) time for all stations, by the Observer Sergeants of the Signal Service. The reports are im mediately telegraphed to the office of the Chief Signal Officer at Washington. By a carefully arranged system of telegraphic operation, copies of the full reports of all stations thus transmitted to 'washington, or of portions of them, are sent at the same time to many of the Signal Service stations in principal cities and towns. 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.