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TRANSACTIONS OP THE 



San Francisco Weather Summary for 1887. 



Compiled in the office of the officer in charge of the Pacific Coast 

 Division Signal Service, by H. E. Wilkinson, Observer Signal Corps: 



Table Showing, by Months, the Meteorological Conditions for the Year 1887, at San Francisco, 

 obtained from the Records of the United States Signal Service. 



SANTA BARBARA COUNTY. 



General Review of the Weather of Santa Barbara, Giving the 

 Highest, Lowest, and Mean Temperature for Each Day, from 

 January 1, 1887, to February 1, 1888, Inclusive. 



By Hugh D. Vail. 



Some two hundred years ago, when Gawen Lawrie first arrived in Amer- 

 ica, and settled in Elizabeth as Governor of the new province of East Jersey, 

 he seemed highly pleased, not only with the country, but also with its cli- 

 mate, and wrote back to England that " the weather was admirably situ- 

 ated to the humors of mankind," it being hardly two days in succession of 

 the same character, and that changes they often longed for at home, and 

 could not get, there came quickly. 



