Senate Document 84 Message from the President of the United States Transmitting A Report of the Secretary of Agriculture in Relation to the Forests, Rivers, and Mountains of the Southern Appalachian Region

CLIMATE OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS.
By ALFRED J. HENRY,
Professor of Meteorology,
United States Weather Bureau.

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,          
WEATHER BUREAU,     
Washington, D. C., December 12, 1901.

SIR: I beg to transmit herewith, in response to your request of a few days since, a short report on the climate of the southern Appalachian region, by Prof. Alfred J. Henry of this Bureau.

Tables of monthly means and extremes of temperature, average rainfall, and relative humidity accompany the paper.

Very respectfully,

WILLIS L. MOORE,     
Chief, United States Weather Bureau.

Hon. JAMES WILSON,
     Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.