Series 1: METEOROLOGICAL JOURNALS, 1835-1902, contains 5 volumes, arranged chronologically. The data in the volumes include: data, hour, barometer, thermometer, wind direction and strength, clouds, sky, precipitation, and remarks.

Series 2: HATCH EXPERIMENT STATION METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, 1891-1924, contains two volumes, arranged chronologically. The data in the volume include: monthly summaries and daily summaries which list barometric pressure, temperature, humidity, wind, precipitation, weather conditions, bright sunshine, and halos. There is also a remarks page at the end of each month.

Series 3: PUBLICATION, COMPILATIONS, AND SUMMARIES, contains materials compiled by Dr. Philip Ives: compilations and summaries of weather data; articles and talks and a monograph prepared by Dr. Ives and news clippings of published Amherst weather data. Also contains THE CLIMATE OF AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS, 1836-1985, by Raymond S. Bradley, Jon K. Eischeid and Philip T. Ives, a 108-page volume containing tables, figures and plates, published in August 1986 as Contribution No. 50 of the Department of Geology & Geography, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. It acknowledges Dr. Ives as the "driving force behind this publication" and explains how his work with the records kept at Amherst College and those kept by the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station in the late 19th Century have made the Amherst records one of the most important meteorological series in the country. Material is arranged by subject and type.

Series 4: DAILY WEATHER DATA, 1948 to date, contains records of the minimum, maximum, and mean temperatures; degree-days; precipitation; and a general description of the weather.