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accordingly. This furnished a greater degree of heat than was experienced there before, and as I have reason to believe, there has since that time been a record kept, which is taken, I think, through the whole building as often as once in three hours by the watch people. The temperature is taken in the halls but not in the rooms in any case I know of. The thermometers are are hung in the halls so that they may know some thing about the temperature, and by hanging them at a given spot they can judge what it would be at another spot.

By Dr. Butler:

Q. Is there any method of getting at the heat [?] of those lodge rooms? A. Yes, you may carry in a thermometer and wait until it settles, and that has often been done. I have been in with different boards of trustees and I think members of the visiting committee do make examinations on that score, going with them for the purpose of holding the [?] or something of that kind; some times