Professional papers of the Signal service, no. 1-16, 18.

No. 17 forms pt.2 (app.71) of the Annual report of the chief signal officer for the year 1885 (Annual report of the secretary of war ... 1885, vol. IV, pt. 2) It is issued also in the Congressional series, no. 2375 (49th Cong., 1st sess. House. Ex. doc.1, pt.2).

Prepared under the direction of W.B. Hazen, chief signal officer.

At head of title: United States of America. War department.

no.1. Report on the solar eclipse of July, 1878, by Cleveland Abbe. 1181.--no.2. Isothermal lines of the United States, 1871-1880, by A.W. Greely. 1881.--no.3. Chronological list of auroras observed from 1870 to 1879, by A.W. Greely. 1881.--no.4. Report on the toronadoes of May 29 and 30, 1879, in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, and Iowa, by J.P. Finley. 1881.--no.5. Information relative to the construction and maintence of time-balls, by W. Upton. 1881.--no.6. The reduction of air-pressure to sea-level, at elevated stations west of the Mississippi River, by H.A. Hazen. 1882.--no.7. Report on the character of six hundred tornadoes, by J.P. Finley. 1882.--no.8. Recent mathematical papers concerning the motions of the atmosphere. Part I.: The motions of fluids and solids on the earth's surface, by W. Ferrel. Reprinted, with notes by Frank Waldo. 1882.--no.9. Charts and tables showing geographical distribution of rainfall in the United States, by H.H.C. Dunwoody. 1883.--no.10. Signal service tables of rainfall and temperature compared with crop production, by H.H.C. Dunwoody. 1882.--no.11. Meteorological and physical observations on the east coast of British America, by O.T. Sherman. 1883.--no.12. Popular essays on the movements of the atmosphere, by W. Ferrel. 1882--no.13. Temperature of the atmosphere and earth'ssurface, by W. Ferrel. 1884.--no.14. Charts of relative storm frequency for a portion of the northern hemisphere, by J.P. Finley. 1884.--no.15. Researches on solar heat and its atsorption by the earth's atmosphere, by S.P. Langley. 1884.--no.16. Toronto studies for 1884, by J.P. Finley. 1885.--no. 18. Thermometer exposure, by H.A. Hazen. 1885.

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