MAGNETIC OBSERVATIONS 39 



14: 16: oo, sky clear, light north wind. 15:22:20, light east wind, hazy around horizon. 

 17: 04: 10, magnet checked with adjusting pin ; 17: 07: 02, scale increased to 3i d .3 ; 17: 07: 06, 

 scale decreased to 6 J .y ; 17:07:08, scale increased to 32". 9 ; 17:07: 12, scale increased to 46 d .8; 

 17:07:20, scale decreased to 2g d .3. 18:08:00, sky hazy, wind variable. 19:12:00, re- 

 volver not taken to hut, calm, sky clear ; 19:15:10, southeast wind rising. 20:00:00, re- 

 volver not taken to hut, southeast wind of velocity 45 miles an hour, drifting snow ; 20: 07: 54, 

 wind velocity now 60 miles an hour. 21: 16:00, revolver not taken to hut, wind southeast 

 and east in gusts; 21:18:10, magnet oscillating- vertically. 22:20:00, revolver not taken 

 to hut, wind south and east-southeast. 24: 00:00, -revolver not taken to hut, wind from 

 southeast. 26:12:00, revolver not taken to hut, wind north and northwest. 27:00:00, 

 revolver not taken to hut, wind northwest ; 27:06:34.5, scale now reads 5O d .8 ; 27: n: 18, no 

 apparent cause for this movement of magnet ; sky clear, light northwest wind ; 27: 13: 20, 

 calm. 28:16:00, after this date revolver no longer taken to hut, wind from northeast. 

 29: 20:00, wind light north to calm. 



May, 1904. 1:00:00, sky clear, wind light north to calm. 2: 10: 42, reading increased 

 off scale to about 79 d ; north wind. 3: 12: 18, scale decreased to 49 d -3 ; wind north-northeast 

 to north; 3:13:30, scale decreased to 3O d .8 ; 3:13:34, scale increased to 39 d .9. 4: oo: oo, 

 calm; 4:03:50, partly cloudy around horizon; 4:08:02, calm and clear; 4:09:34, clouding 

 up ; 4: 12: 48, scale increasing almost imperceptibly, but returns to reading at 12: 51 ; 4: 12: 56, 

 scale increasing very slowly to 78 d .6 and returns to reading at 12: 58 ; 4: 14: 50, sun breaking 

 through clouds, clouds disappearing ; 4: 17:20, sky again overcast; 4:22:00, scale decreased 

 to 35 d .o ; 4:22:12, scale decreased to 37 d . i ; wind from northeast. 5:16:00, wind from 

 north-northeast. 6:20:00, wind from northeast, sky overcast, snowing. 8:00:00, wind 

 calm to east; 8:03:38, reading 79. d o estimated. 9:08:00, wind from southeast to east. 

 10 : 12:00, wind from southeast to calm. 11:00:00, sky overcast, wind from south; 

 11:08:54, wind has shifted through east-southeast to east, clouds mostly in horizon; 

 1 1 : 09: 14, scale increasing from 2i d .6 to 22 d .8, then quiescent ; 1 1 : 10: 24, sky again completely 

 overcast; 11:12:10, sun breaking through clouds; 11:16:10, scattering cirro-cumulus 

 clouds, wind has subsided; 11:23:56, magnet oscillating vertically. 12, wind from east. 

 13:20:00, in turning magnet stirrup slipped and made several turns in fiber, it took until 

 20: oo to recover plane of detorsion ; wind calm ; 13:20:18, magnet checked with adjusting 

 pin ; 13: 20:36, observer found a pocket knife on his person ; the same was removed outside 

 of hut between 20: 36 and 20: 38. 15, wind from north ; 15 : 02 : 42, scale decreasing ; 

 15:06:06, scale increased to 49*. 7 ; 15:07:36, reading 7/0 estimated. 17, wind from north- 

 northwest. 18, wind from east, northeast, and north ; sky overcast generally throughout 

 observations; 18:06: 12, scale increasing; 18:09:54, sun appears for a short time. 19, 

 wind from north-northeast to north. 20, wind north, snow ; 20: 20: 15.8, scale increased 

 to 67 d .o. 22, northeast wind. 23, northeast wind; 23:11:47.6, scale decreased to 22 d .3. 

 24, northeast wind. 25, sky overcast, light southeast and east wind, snowing; 25: 11:38, 

 scale increasing to 42 d .6 ; 25:13:46, scale decreased to 3i d .6 ; 25:13:48, scale increased to 

 37 d .o and then decreased to quiescence at 13: 50. 26, sky overcast, variable wind. 27, 

 east to south wind, snowing at end. 29, sky overcast, light east-southeast wind increasing 

 in strength to east wind and snow at end ; 29: 01: 26, magnet checked with adjusting pin; 

 29:07:36, scale increasing. 30, west-southwest wind ; 30:08:04.4, scale decreased to 57*.9. 

 31, southwest to south-southeast wind at end. 



June, 1904. i, sky overcast, variable winds; 1:00:14, scale decreasing; 1:05:48, scale 

 increasing; 1:06: 29.1, scale decreased to i6 d .9 and then increased steadily to 64 d .i at 6: 32.2; 



