The record-union., 1899-06-09
MUCH INTERESTING DATA.
TT SHOWS THE CLIMATE IS NOT
CHANGING.

What Weather Observer Barwick
Pound In the California Medi-
cal Journal. Of. 1856.
Through the kindness of Mr.. Chap
man, janitor Of the Odd Fellows Tenn
pie in this city, Weather Observer Bar
wick has. been presented with the third
number of volume / of the Cafror-
mia State Medical Journal" for the quar-
ter ending December 81, 1856, the ed
dtor and proprietor being DR.. John r.
Morse. The motto Of the Journal was
Medicine and Humanity = Worthy
Shrines of Worship The Journal"
was issued from the printing press of
the Sacramento Daily Union" Il J
street
In this journal will be found on the
back cover fourteen advertisements, one
being from Little & HincAley, chemh
lists, 137 Montgomery street, San Fran
cisco, and one from DR.. H. Austin, dem
fist, It's Washington street, San Fran
cisco, next to the Marble building.
Among the Sacramento advertisers
We're J. r. Boyce & Co., drug
sdsts, corner K and Second streets; DR..
William L. Boyle, dentist 100 street;
Boston Drug Store C. B. Harned), 53
j street datham's new building); Drs.
Light & Pearson, dentists, 81 street,
between Third and Fourth; DR.. w. H.
Thomas, 70 street; H. S. Burgess,
druggist, 26O street, between Ninth
and Tenth; F. NJ. Hackett, dentist, 115
j street Gather of Mrs. John T. Pike,
and still in practice in Napa); r. H.
Mcdonald & Co., druggists, 139 ] street
tthe Co" was ]. C. Spencer); DR.. F. w.
Taylor & Co., druggists, A Front street
Che Co" being G. A. Fabricius); j.
Bithell, bookseller, 102 J street; Justin
Gates, druggist; Frederick Foster, prac-
teal bookbinder, Ill street.
The County Hospital was located on
L street, between Tenth and Eleventh
DR.. William Greethan Hatch was the
Resident Physician and Duncan Liv-
fngston was Steward.
The second annual convention of the
California State Medical Society was
held in Pioneer Hall on Wednesday,
February II, 1857. The President, DR..
b. F. Keene, having died, DR.. E. S.
Cooper, Second Vice-President, occu-
pied the chair. The following officers
We're elected for the ensuing year: Pres
ident, DR.. H. Gibbons, San Francisco;
Notwithstanding. r. H. Mcdonald,
Marysville; DR.. Obed Harvey, Ell Do
rado; DIR. A. j. Spencer, Santa Clara;
DIR. r. B. Ellis, Sacramento; DR.. A B.
Stout, San Francisco; Corresponding
Secretary, DR.. Thomas NJ Logan, Sac
Tamenfo; Recording Secretaries-Dr
Gustayus Taylor. Sacramento; DR.. w
p Ti1dap Tnbo ID
Whitney, Dr. ]. NJ. Williamson, DR.. c.
A. Berthody and Dr. NJ w. Fifer. Of
San Francisco, and Dr. H W. Hank
ness, DR.. 1. E. Oatman and Dr. J. F.
Montgomery of Sacramento.
OF the above-named Sacramentans
all have passed to the great beyond ex-
cept DR.. Hardness, who is now a resi-
dent of San Francisco.
The greater interest to Observer
Barwick in this volume centers in the
extensive and accurate records of the
weather for each month of the year
1So6-just forty-four years ago. This
data is both tabulated and published
in the form Of a monthly journal by
that well-known and painstaking me-
terorologist, DE- T. NJ. Logan In his
tabulated data he includes records Of
the barometer, thermometer, thermo-
metrograph, dew-point, relative humid
ity, clear days, cloudy and foggy days.
1any days, quantity Of clouds and num-
Der of days the wind blowed from the
different points of the compass with
the force of the wind, etc. In those
days there We're no Instruments for
registering the velocity Of the wind, as
now in use by the Weather Bureau Dr.
Logan was acting as a voluntary OBJ
server for the Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D. c., and the doctor ex-
pressly says that his observations have
been made with the instruments and in
accordance with Instructions from that
institution.
To prove beyond a doubt that there
has been no change whatever in the
climatic conditions of this State during
the past forty-four years, we Will COM
pare the four years means obtained by
the doctor with the means as now OBJ
tanned from the record of the past forty
four years. showing that mean Of
.forty-four years is about the same as
the mean of four years only.
The mean temperature for the year
1885 was COL degrees. which was OF
degrees less than the doctors normal
tor four years. This would make the
normal annual temperature Of the doc
tor read 60.3 degrees. The normal an
smual mean temperature as deduced
from a forty-four year record, Is 602
degrees, being but one-tenth of one de-
gree less than the normal Of a four
years record.
In the record Of the past forty-four
years, the warmest years, Judging from
the greatest annual mean temperature,
were those of 1865 and 1876, the mean
being sixty-three for each year
The coolest year, judging from the
one which gave the lowest mean, was
that Of 1881, the mean being but 81 de-
grees In a record of forty-four years
the variation in the mean annual tenn
perature has been but 8 degrees. The
warmest year. So degrees was g de-
grees above the normal Of 60 degrees.
while the coolest year 81 degrees was 8
degrees below the mean of 60 degrees
The mean Of the coolest and warmest
years combined is exactly 60 degrees,
the same as the normal annual mean
temperature of forty-four years rec
ord.
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