Bulletin, Nummer 11U.S. Government Printing Office, 1894 |
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Pagina 235 - ... commerce and navigation; the reporting of temperature and rainfall conditions for the cotton interests; the display of frost and cold-wave signals; the distribution of meteorological information in the interests of agriculture and commerce, and the taking of such meteorological observations as may be necessary to establish and record the climatic conditions of the United States or as are essential for the proper execution of the foregoing duties.
Pagina 234 - War be, and he hereby is, authorized and required to provide for taking meteorological observations at the military stations in the interior of the continent and at other points in the States and Territories of the United States, and for giving notice on the northern lakes and on the seacoast, by magnetic telegraph and marine signals, of the approach and force of storms.
Pagina 208 - Years 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, and 1830, from Observations made by the Surgeons of the Army, and others at the Military Posts of the United States.
Pagina 654 - REMARKS EXPLANATORY OF THE CHARTS OF METEOROLOGICAL DATA FOR THE OCEAN DISTRICT ADJACENT TO THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
Pagina 341 - An Attempt for the Explication of the Phenomena Observable in an Experiment Published by the Honorable Robert Boyle...
Pagina 306 - But I have never been able to conceive that the wind in violent storms moves only in circles. On the contrary, a vortical movement, approaching to that which may be seen in all lesser vortices, aerial or aqueous, appears to be an essential element of their violent and long continued action, of their increased energy towards the centre or axis, and of the accompanying rain.
Pagina 235 - Agriculture, has charge of the forecasting of weather; the issue of storm warnings; the display of weather and flood signals for the benefit of agriculture, commerce, and navigation; the gauging and reporting of rivers; the maintenance and operation of seacoast' telegraph lines, and the collection and transmission of marine intelligence for the benefit of commerce and navigation; the reporting of temperature and rainfall conditions for the cotton interests; the display of frost and cold-wave signals;...
Pagina 215 - The results obtained from these appropriations to be published, with the memoirs before mentioned, in the volumes of the Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. 4. Examples of objects for which appropriations may be made : (1.) System of extended meteorological observations, for solving the problem of American storms.
Pagina 306 - ... one hand, or the lately alleged centripetal winds on the other. The degree of vorticular inclination in violent storms must be subject, locally, to great variations ; but it is not probable that on an average of the different sides, it ever comes near to forty-five degrees from the tangent of a circle, and that such average inclination ever exceeds two points of the compass, may well be doubted.
Pagina 345 - The Shepherd of Banbury's Rules," and the pages have been remounted throughout. There are five subsequent editions of the same work. A TRUE AND PERFECT NARRATIVE OF THE GREAT AND DREADFUL DAMAGES SUSTEYNED IN SEVERAL PARTS OF ENGLAND BY THE LATE EXTRAORDINARY SNOWS. 4to. London, 1674. This is an interesting account of the heavy snowstorms which occurred during the first week in March 1674. "Whereby...