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but appeared to have sustained some injury as the mercury gave a muffled click when tipped up. The standard thermometer was safe. The Casella and minimum thermometers were so far under water that we could not reach them in the present condition of the tide. The magnet, clock key, box of pencils and one of the weights of the tide guage are not yet found.
We brought the guage, thermometer and barometer aboard and cleaned the two former as well as circumstances would admit, pending a more complete restoration.
Bar. 28.840. Ther. 38.
Max 34? Min 30?
Gale from SE with heavy rain
Moderates toward evening
Barometer goes up to 29.000

-----Monday Jan 22 1872-----
Bar. 28.912. Ther. 40. Early AM calm cloudy about 9AM fresh breeze from SE. [[Get?]] tide guage house towed over to & hauled up on Capt. Hennigs wharf where we 
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10th of June 1871 the Gregorian Calendar was ordered for Alaska - by Archbishop of S.F.?

Transcription Notes:
S.F. is correct = San Francisco.Last line, left hand page: "Capt Hennigs wharf where we" - Hennigs is correct, i.e. it would more correctly be Capt. Hennig's wharf but apostrophe is missing (he is Ernest Hennig of Alaska Commercial Company)