Dear Sir: It is the purpose of this office to make a collection of the popular weather proverbs and prognostics used throughout the country and by all classes and races of people, including Indians, negroes, and all foreigners. In order to facilitate this work the accompanying questions have been prepared and distributed. If you will kindly lend your assistance in this work I shall be greatly obliged, and if the reports are numerous enough to warrant their printing you shall be furnished with a copy of the paper.
Please write the answers to the questions on the lines provided for that purpose, and number the answers to correspond with the numbers of the questions answered. Please add such other information bearing on the subject as you may have. When possible please give the origin and history of the saying or proverb.
Yours, very respectfully,
W. B. HAZEN,
Brig. & Bvt. Maj. Gen’l, Chief Signal Officer, U. S. A.
1. Proverbs relating to the sun.
2. Proverbs relating to the moon. (New moon, change of moon, halo around the moon, influence of moon on agricultural operations, change of moon on days of week, &c.)
3. Proverbs relating to stars and meteors.
4. Proverbs relating to rainbows.
5. Proverbs relating to mist and fog.