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The systematic gathering of meteorological information was continued by individuals at different places. Among the observers worthy of special mention were: Doctor John Lining, who, from 1738 till 1750, noted the climatic conditions in Charleston, South Carolina, and was the first to make a series of instrumental observations in the United States;2 [2 Ibidem, page 295] John Winthrop, of Harvard College, who in 1742 began to collect such data, and continued the practice for more than twenty years;3 [3 Ibidem, page 296] and John Bartram, the botanist, who made observations in his famous gardens in the Schuylkill in 1748, and again in 1758--`59 and in 1761--`77. His manuscript is preserved by the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia.1 [1 Henry, Alfred J., "Early Individual Observers in the United States." Page 297.] Of conspicuous interest are the series of observations made by Thomas Jefferson in Monticello in 1772-`78, and toward the close of this period he instituted, with James Madison, a series of simultaneous observations in Monticello and at William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia. These, it is believed, were the first simultaneous observations made in this country.2 [2 Harrington, Mark W., "History of the Weather Map," page 327, "Bulletin No. II, of the Weather Bureau." Washington, 1895.]

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