Annual Report of the Secretary of War, المجلد 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1885 |
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01 inch 11 p. m. Monthly a. m. Washington April Ariz barometer above sea-level Barometer readings corrected barometric observations Cape Henry Cedar Keys City Cloudiness in tenths Correction for instrumental Date December 31 Elevation of barometer Elevation of exposed Elevation of rain ending December 31 error of barometer exposed thermometer February feet following constants gauge above ground Grand Haven instrumental error Iowa January June 30 Location of office Mackinaw City March Maximum above 90 Maximum below 32 Mean minimum Meteorological summary Miles mometers Mont North Carolina November Number of calms Number of days observed blowing October office on December Ohio p. m. Mean p. m. Monthly mean Percentages Prevailing direction reduced to sea-level Relative humidity sea-level by adding Self-registering ther Shreveport Signal Corps Signal Service stations telegraph temperature and instrumental Tenn thermometer above ground Thunder-storms Total movement United States Army various months Wind
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الصفحة 535 - ... the cautionary signal is displayed, or in that vicinity. 2. That the danger appears to be so great as to demand precaution on the part of navigators and others interested — such as an examination of vessels or other structures to be endangered by a storm — the inspection of crews, rigging, etc., and general preparation for rough weather. 3. It calls for frequent examination of local barometers, and other instruments, by ship captains, or others interested, and the study of local signs of...
الصفحة 5 - ... those showing capacity for special work are selected and instructed, with a view of qualifying them for the scientific work of the service. INDICATIONS. The weather forecasts, based upon tri-daily telegraphic reports, have been regularly issued during the year and, as an evidence of their practical value, they now form an important item of news for the associated press of the country. In a number of cases the daily papers are furnished with special forecasts to satisfy the demands of the public,...
الصفحة 60 - September 3, 18-5. In accordance with the above order, the Board met at Willets Point on the above date at l'¿ o'clock in.
الصفحة 36 - Spring — March. April, and May; summer — June, July, and August : autumn — September, October, and November; and winter — December, January, and February.
الصفحة 41 - These charts should be examined in reference to the corresponding month of preceding years, and to the months preceding and succeeding. Particular attention should be given to the study of the cloud areas and of dew points as affecting probable changes of night temperature. 11. On the day of assignment to duty in charge of the indications division he will carefully examine all instructions pertaining to that division. 12. He will see that the mounted messenger is present, with horse saddled, at the...
الصفحة 599 - ... myself, and is pronounced by him " accepted." Each article so purchased is taken up on a property report, which is rendered quarterly to the Chief Signal Officer for transmission to the Third Auditor of the Treasury, so that not one article, from the merest trifle to the most expensive instrument that is bought, but what is carefully reported every three months to the accounting officers of the Treasury ; and when it is considered that my property is scattered over the United States at all the...
الصفحة 33 - Corps, with rank and pay of officers of like grade of cavalry — 1. One colonel. 2. One lieutenant-colonel. 3. One major and disbursing officer. 4. Eight captains ; and the second lieutenants of the Signal Corps, after eight years of service as second lieutenants, may be appointed by the President first lieutenants : and after fourteen years' service as lieutenants, may be appointed by the President captains. And the one hundred and fifty sergeants of the Signal Corps shall be composed of three...
الصفحة 559 - Hungary, by Prof. Dr. Julius Hann, director of the Imperial and Royal Central Meteorological Institute at Vienna. Belgium, by JC Houzeau, director of the Royal Observatory at Brussels.
الصفحة 19 - Of the seven hundred and twenty-one days spent at Fort Conger, two hundred and sixty-eight days had been marked by the total absence of the sun. On two hundred and sixty-two days one or more sledge parties had been absent in the field, on journeys entailing from two to sixty days' absence, and some three thoiJtand miles have been traveledby such parties.
الصفحة 31 - ... organization, the chief one being, like that of a permanent staff everywhere, a better general administration. I have no doubt but that, had I had an organized corps, with officers of my own, whose points I fully knew, the disaster that overtook the Greely Relief Expedition of 1883 would not have occurred. The want of such a corps is felt every day, and it is hoped that Congress will no longer withhold its benefits, leaving it alone, of all services in the Army, weakened and embarrassed by the...