At its Locarno meeting in October 1931, the International Meteorological Committee adopted a resolution emphasizing the great importance of observations at mountain stations during the Second International Polar Year [see reference 1 at end of paper]. Mount Washington was the only high‐level station in this country to cooperate with the International Polar Year Commission (see Figs. 1 and 5). The history of its organization and the details of its operation were outlined by R. S. Monahan and S. Pagliuca at the fourteenth annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in April 1933 [2]. A popular account by R. S. Monahan has also appeared [3