MAGNETIC OBSERVATIONS 39 



14:16:00, 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 si^.s ; 17: 07: 06, 

 scale decreased to 6*.7 ; 17:07: 08, scale increased to 32*.9 ; 17: 07: 12, scale increased to 46^.8; 

 17:07:20, scale decreased to 29*.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''.8 ; 27: 11: 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* ; north wind. — 3: 12: 18, scale decreased to 49^.3 ; wind north-northeast 

 to north; 3:13:30, scale decreased to 30''. 8 ; 3:13:34, scale increased to 39^.9. — 4:00:00, 

 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^.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 

 t0 35*.o; 4:22:12, scale decreased to 37". 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.''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; 

 11:09: 14, scale increasing from 21*. 6 to 2 2*. 8, then quiescent ; 11: 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: 00 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*.o. — 22, northeast wind. — 23, northeast wind; 23:11:47.6, scale decreased to 22*.3. — 

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

 scale increasing to42*.6; 25: 13:46, scale decreased to 3i''.6; 25:13:48, scale increased to 

 37*.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 16*. 9 and then increased steadily to 64^.1 at 6: 32.2; 



