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tered by the Italian Alpine Club, to which organization is 

 due the existence of the completely equipped Meteorological 

 Observatory, inaugurated November 25, at Fiesole. Very 

 many of the existing stations in Italy are due to the Alpine 

 Club ; and still another is about to be opened at Castel Piano, 

 on Mt. Piano, near Siena. 



The publication of the Bulletin of the Arcetri Observatory 

 will be continued by Tempel. 



An Italian meteorological society has been organized, with 

 its headquarters at Modena, where also is published, by Ra- 

 gona, the Annuario, or Monthly Meteorological Journal, which 

 will be the organ of the society, and must tend to disseminate 

 a healthy spirit among the Italian amateurs and specialists. 

 It appears thus far to have worthily supplemented the work 

 done by the Meteorological Office of the Department of Pub- 

 lic Instruction at Pome, very much as has been done in Vi- 

 enna by the Zeitschrift of the Austrian Association. Were 

 it not for the annoying multiplication of scientific journals, 

 we are not sure but that a meteorological association and 

 monthly would do a good work in the United States. The 

 Meteorological Offices of the Departments of the Marine and 

 of Agriculture and Commerce have been merged into one, 

 under the Department of Public Instruction, by which the 

 Bulletino and the Memorie e JVotizie are now published. 



Denza, of Moncalieri, announces that it has been decided 

 to eive the meteorological station on the summit of the Stel- 

 vio Pass the name, " The Secchi Station at Stelvio," in per- 

 manent commemoration of the great work accomplished in 

 Italy by Father Secchi, who, among many other things, be- 

 gan in Rome the publication of a Telegraphic Meteorological 

 Bulletin a vear before Leverrier bewail the Paris Bulletin. 



Professor P. G. S. Ferrari succeeds Father Secchi in charge 

 of the Observatory of the Roman College. 



Mr. G. F. Rodwell writes to Nature, urging the execution 

 of the proposal made two years ago by Tacchini, that a me- 

 teorological and astronomical observatory should be estab- 

 lished near the summit of Mt.^Etna. 



At the Dublin meeting of the British Association the fol- 

 lowing papers were read : Professor Everett, Report on Un- 

 derground Temperature ; Professor G. Forbes, Report on 

 Atmospheric Electricity ; James Glaisher, Report on Lumi- 



