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ously opposed by Levemer. We believe, however, tliat the 

 Algerian system in and of itself is now quite complete, and 

 that under the present administration its connection with the 

 present French system is generally very satisfactory, notwith- 

 standing a short interruption that occurred in August, 1878. 



Bischofscheim, the celebrated banker at Paris, has contrib- 

 uted sufficient to construct a meteorological observatory on 

 the top of Mont Ventoux. 



Mr. Markham has published the long-promised second edi- 

 tion of his memoir on the "Indian Surveys." This brings 

 down the history of geodetic and meteorological and other 

 work in India to the end of the year 1877. The geograph- 

 ical and geological work has made extraordinary progress 

 during the past seven years ; and the meteorological work 

 has been concentrated to a uniform system subordinate to a 

 Central Bureau, under the direction of Mr. H. F. Blanford. 



The whole volume is full of exceedingly interesting histor- 

 ical details, and from the chapter on Meteorology we take 

 the following notes : A meteorological journal was kept by 

 Colonel Pearce, at Calcutta, in 1785 to 1788; and by Mr. 

 Henry Traill in 1784 and 1785. From that time to the 

 present but few gaps occur in the series of records for that 

 station. The principal collections of meteorological regis- 

 ters are to be found in the successive volumes of "Asiatic 

 Researches;" the Madras Journal / the Journal of the Bom- 

 bay Branch of the Asiatic Society ; Glashier's " Report on 

 the Meteorology of India," London, 1863; Neil's "Annual 

 Reports for the Punjab;" Thomson's "Reports for the 

 Northwest Provinces ;" Blanford's " Reports for the Gov- 

 ernment of Bengal;" and Chambers's "Annual Reports for 

 Bombay." Of the more recent works by Blanford, we have 

 already given notice in our preceding Annual Record. 



The voluntary Association of the Meteorological Offices of 

 Bengal, the northwest and central provinces Berar, Ceylon, 

 and Singapore, began in 1873. This resulted in the appoint- 

 ment, in 1875, of Mr. Blanford as Meteorological Reporter 

 for the Government to India; and the net-work of stations has 

 now been extended over the Punjab, Bombay, Madras, Bur- 

 mah, Assam, the Nicobar Islands, Ceylon, portions of Afghan- 

 istan, and Thibet. 



The progress of meteorology in Italy is being actively fos- 



