Scope and Contents This volume contains "journal accounts" and "ledger accounts." Journal accounts are written on even numbered pages and consist of weather data, short statements on daily activities, and reports on catastrophes and other events around the world. Ledger accounts include logs of financial transactions, written on odd numbered pages. Intermixed among these routine entries are a few accounts, including the following: account of a visit to Council Bluff, Iowa, December 1881-February 1882 (pages...