Annual Report of the Secretary of WarU.S. Government Printing Office, 1888 |
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amount April August Average number Cedar Keys Character of station charts Chief Signal Officer Cloudiness in tenths co-operation cold-wave corn County daily change December Dew point director division ending June 30 Fair favorable February frost furnished Grand Haven heliograph inches instruments J. C. Walshe January July June 30 Key West Latitude Lieutenant longitude Mackinaw City March Maximum military Minimum month Monthly and yearly North November Number of days Observations began October Ohio Oregon p.m. Mean Pacific railway system Poplar River precipitation Pressure Prevailing direc Prof Railroad rainfall received records reports River Saint Louis Saint Paul Sept September Signal Corps Signal Corps Lieut Signal Service Signal Service stations storms Tatoosh Island telegraph lines temperature Thunder-storms tion Total miles U. S. post hospital voluntary observers weather service West wind yearly meteorological summaries-Continued
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Side 108 - Sir: I have the honor to respectfully submit the following report of the work of the Service...
Side 119 - Cook, of said college, the secretary of the state board of agriculture, and a third person to be appointed by the governor, as a board of directors ; the members of the board of directors shall be commissioned by the governor, and be duly qualified as like officers of the state.
Side 201 - ... also whether they have been usefully employed; whether the services of any of them can be dispensed with without detriment to the public service; and whether the removal of any individuals, and the appointment of others in their stead, is required for the better dispatch of business...
Side 56 - ... the sum of these products is divided by the total number of responses emitted that day.
Side 43 - For the manufacture and purchase of apparatus and equipments for field signals, two thousand dollars, and that there be added to the staff of the army one signal officer, with the rank, pay, and allowances of a major of cavalry...
Side 34 - Jane 30,1889, with the expenditures thereunder and the balances, with probable demands on such balances, report of which is required to be rendered by the act of Congress approved May 20, 1820, is as follows: Appropriated: Observation and report of storms _•„.
Side 69 - AVashington, such as general storm predictions. The State service is, therefore, essentially a plan for gathering and utilizing local climatic data, and eventually it will define precisely the localities most favorable or unfavorable to special crops, diseases, etc.
Side 105 - Experience has, however, shown that in many questions relating to agriculture and other interests, more minute details are needed, such as can only be obtained by having at least one report from every county, and this extension of the work must, for the present, devolve upon the individual States • It is considered desirable that each State should, as far as practicable, establish some such system as is suggested in the accompanying memorandum. I shall be pleased to learn from you whether there...
Side 119 - That there is hereby appropriated for the ensuing year, for the establishment of said bureau and stations, the sum of one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may he necessary for the purpose...
Side 47 - ... screws until the whole of the station mirror is seen reflected in the sun mirror and the unsilvered spot and the reflection of the paper disk accurately cover each other. Still looking into the sun mirror...