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barometer and other instruments was made possible 

 through the generous offer of Singleton Charnock, a 

 British ship's carpenter, and at present a student at the 

 university, to construct the building. He had weathered 

 Mt. Rose in one gale, but preferred the Horn twice to 

 going through the experience again without a cabin 

 aloft 



A thermograph and a barograph capable of furnishing 

 a continuous record for at least five weeks were also 

 planned in order that the value of the records might be 

 increased with a minimum of physical exertion. An 

 anemometer, or wind-gauge, with recording apparatus, 

 was also planned to settle the question regarding the 

 source of the violent pumping of the barograph during 

 a falling or variable pressure, a marked peculiarity of 

 every barographic record of passing storms. 



A tank capable of catching and retaining the seasonal 

 rain- and snowfall was suggested by Professor McAdie, 

 as was also the borrowing of a set of evaporation-tubs 

 from the Reclamation vService to continue the evaporation 

 observations begun on Mt. Whitney. 



A request for funds was made to the Weather Bureau 

 and to the university. At this point the passage of the 

 Adams Act and its favorable interpretation by the Bureau 

 of Experiment Stations prepared the way for an appro- 

 priation of five hundred dollars by the Nevada Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station on June 30, 1906, when the 

 observatory became officially the Department of (Moun- 

 tain) Meteorology and Climatology of the station. From 

 this time the third period of the observatory's develop- 

 ment should be dated. 



Under this appropriation the observatory building was 

 constructed during the late summer and autumn by a 

 volunteer band consisting of Professor Johnson and 

 Mr. Charnock, excavator and carpenter respectively ; Mr. 

 C. L. Brown, Captain Brambila, Frankie Folsom, and the 

 writer, packers ; and Mrs. Church, cook. Professors S. B. 

 Doten and J. G. Scrugham prepared material at the home 



