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Yearly Maintenance
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Assistant
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Office Contingencies
$1090 is $5200.
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100.0.0
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Wtandard Eye observations should be made daily at regular hours during the day to serve as
check on the automatic records. These obser
rexcuzial" rations should include readings of the bars. meter, dry and wet, and maximum and mini Mam thermometers, radiation thermometer,
and rain.
as also cloud observations. guage Jese instruments are not included in the
already possessed the iscal. Jovernment in several of the Public infices, and they would simply have to be trans terred to the Obserwatory.
stimate of first cost, as they
are
It has been suggested to saddle the Observatory with a great deal of Extraneous work, geological,
seismical, sea temperatures etc. I think this would be undesirable. If the Superintendent has Cury spare time it could not be better devoted than to further meteorological Studies of the pheno-
typhoons ; and to the tabulation and in=
of the Entire chain.
: ment
-restigation of the records
of observing stations from Hong Kong to Japan,
of
Maintained by the Superial Mantime Cus toms of China, and by the Government Japan.
The observatories of Hong Kong and Zi-ka-wei
of the
and
should act in concert to obtain the adoption. of meteorological instruments
of uniform calibre and make, along the Entire coast between them. This coast is over a thousand miles
miles Jug Contains numerous observing stations. Their Collaboration if trustworthy would be invaluable, but to Ensure this their work should be tase -tematized and recorded in the same fo as that the terminal observatories. The telegraphic interchange of weather intelligence between the principal ports along the China coast may ( think be spfected without Cost. Already before d left Hong Kong I sounded the local directors of the telegraph Companies aust was much sncouraged by their replies. This matter however is one which. the local directow would have to refer to their Head Offices in Europe for decision.
Nicl
Surveyor Esacral.
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