List of Climatological Records in the National Archives, Volumes 1-2; Volumes 4-6 |
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1st order 2d order Annual Report Apr.-Aug Apr.-Dec Apr.-July Apr.-June Apr.-Nov Apr.-Oct Apr.-Sept Army Aug.-Dec Aug.-Nov Aug.-Oct barometer Barracks Chief Signal Officer CITY--SI CITY--VO clouds County County)--VO CREEK direction and force Feb.-Apr Feb.-Dec Feb.-July Feb.-May Feb.-Sept gaps Greely Hygrometer included instruments Jan.-Apr Jan.-Aug Jan.-Dec Jan.-July Jan.-June Jan.-Mar Jan.-Nov Jan.-Oct Jan.-Sept July July-Dec July-Nov July-Oct July-Sept June June-Aug June-Dec June-Nov June-Oct June-Sept Lake Survey Mar.-Aug Mar.-Dec Mar.-July Mar.-June Mar.-May Mar.-Nov May-Aug May-Dec May-July May-Nov May-Oct May-Sept meteorological meteorological observations Meteorological Register meteorological reports miles military monthly reports MOUNT National Archives Oct.-Dec posts precipitation rain records Reg Sta reports of observers reports of voluntary River second order stations Sept Sept.-Dec Sept.-Nov Signal Corps Smithsonian Institution SPRINGS--VO submitted sunset Surgeon General's Office telegraphic thereunder thermometer tion transfer velocity voluntary observers Weather Bureau weather service wet bulb
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Page xvii - WAR," authorizing the Secretary of War to provide for taking meteorological observations at the military stations and other points of the interior of the continent, and for giving notice on the northern lakes and sea-board of the approach and force of storms...
Page xv - I take the liberty of calling your attention to the accompanying list of disasters to the commerce of our Great Lakes during the past year, and to ask whether its appalling magnitude does not make it the duty of the Government to see whether anything can be done to prevent, at least, some portion of this sad loss in the future.
Page xxx - One of the great objections to the present method of conducting the weather service is that not far from two-thirds of its actual cost (pay, clothing, subsistence, transportation, &c., of men) is, under the fictitious name which the organization has used in reaching its present growth, a burden upon, and a considerable part of, regular army appropriations. The proposed bill would increase this burden by the compensation of twenty-seven officers of various grades and one professor.
Page viii - On the question whether in a series of years there be any material change in the climate of a given district of country ; and if so, how far it depends upon cultivation of the soil, density of population, &c. the most contradictory opinions have been advanced. While one contends, that, as population increases and cultivation extends, the climate becomes warmer, another is equally convinced that it becomes colder, and a third, that there is no change in...
Page xlix - ... topographical engineers to 1863 and copies of contracts for the survey and improvement of rivers and harbors to 1863. Records available on micro- Engineer Bureau on topographical film: copies of letters sent by the matters, 1829-70 (M 66). Topographical Bureau and by the Record Group 27. —The meteorological reports of the Survey of the Northern and Northwestern Lakes, 1859-76 (13 ft. ), submitted to the Topographical Bureau and later to the Engineer Bureau, were transferred to the Signal Office...
Page vii - keep a diary of the weather . . . noting everything of importance relating to the medical topography of his station
Page xxxix - Canada, the West Indies, and other regions outside the boundaries of the United States...