124 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



rienccd in May, June, and July, tlie lowest percentage being 

 in June. Besides predictions for the European coasts, the 

 Herald Weather Bureau lias given repeated warnings of bad 

 weather in the Middle and East Atlantic, for the benefit of 

 vessels about to leave European ports. Numerous reports 

 from ship-captains have reached the Weather and the Ship 

 News Bureau of the Herald^ announcing the complete fulfil- 

 ment of these ocean warnings, and their great use to navi- 

 gators. 



Mr. R. II. Scott, Director of the London Meteorological 

 Office, has published in the Nautical Magazine, for March, 

 an exhaustive review of the early work of the New York 

 Herald. He reports 47 predictions 7 fully, 10 partly, 6 

 slightly verified, and 17 total failures. A detailed reply to 

 Scott's criticism has been printed in the Herald. 



The opinion that any storm ever crosses the Atlantic from 

 America to Europe has been of late years very coldly re- 

 ceived by the London office, but seems to have gained a 

 strong hold upon the mind of the British public, owing es- 

 pecially to the apparent fulfilment of a portion of the storm 

 predictions published from time to time in the London 

 papers on the authority of the New York Herald. During 

 several years the London office was in receipt of daily de- 

 spatches from Heart's Content, and in 1869 Leverrier enter- 

 tained the idea of obtaining a daily synopsis of American 

 weather from the Cincinnati 'Weather Bulletin; but it re- 

 mained for the Herald to awaken in England and France 

 that interest in the subject that has been manifested during 

 the past year, and which is, we believe, likely to lead to an 

 important step in international meteorology. It is, indeed, 

 now evident that weather predictions can be made by Euro- 

 peans much more satisfactorily when the region from which 

 they receive daily weather reports is made to include as 

 much as possible of America and the Atlantic, although no 

 one has thus far demonstrated exactly what becomes of the 

 areas of high and low barometer after they disappear off 

 our Atlantic coast. 



The monthly reviews of the German Meteorological Office 

 contain numerous contributions on the subject of the pre- 

 ceding paragraph. A large number of valuable ocean obser- 

 vations are tabulated in the Review for July, just published ; 



