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Dr. Fines has published the " Bulletin Meteorologique du 

 Departernent des Pyrenees-Orientales" for 1876, the cost of 

 which is defrayed by the city of Perpignan and the Departe- 

 ment des Pyrenees-Orientales. In this volume are contained 

 the observations in detail, made eight times daily at the Ob- 

 servatory of Perpignan, together with the monthly means, 

 etc. These are followed by monthly means of observations 

 at numerous stations throughout the Departernent, and, in 

 detail, *-he observations made at the high station Montlouis 

 (altitude 5204 feet). To these observations are appended a 

 chapter on the Atmosphere, the Rain, and Dryness, by Ch. 

 Naudin, and one on the Trombe de Rivesaltes, August 19, 

 1876, by Dr. Fines. This latter tornado, as we call it in 

 America, lasted about 20 minutes, and extended over a path 

 about 6 miles long and 1000 feet broad, or less. A slight 

 fall, followed by a rise, in the barometer was noticed at a 

 distance of 10 miles, where also the wind increased to high 

 for a few minutes. In some general notes Dr. Fines main- 

 tains that in some tornadoes or trombes we have ascending, 

 and in others descending, vortex currents of air. 



A Summary of Twenty-eight Years of Meteorological Ob- 

 servation at Erfurt is given by Dr. Koch in the Erfurt Jalxr- 

 buch der Ii. Acad, der Wiss. 



The first publication in Germany of observations at nu- 

 merous stations, in precisely the form and style recommended 

 to all nations by the Permanent Committee of the Vienna 

 Conference, has come to hand in the volume of observations 

 at seventeen German stations of the second order published 

 under the joint action of Xeumayer, Schoder, Sohncke, and 

 Bruhns representing respectively the Deutsche Seewarte, 

 Wurtemberg, Baden, and Saxony, to which Bavaria possibly 

 will be added next year. 



Van Bebber communicates to Petermann's Mittheilungeii 

 a Study of the "Weather Phenomena, based on the simultane- 

 ous observations made for the German Seewarte at Ham- 

 burg. He sketches the condition of meteorology previous 

 to the present decade as contrasted with the present. For- 

 merly we studied climatology; but now the movements of 

 the atmosphere, or dynamic meteorology, and the study of 

 the atmosphere as a whole, by means of synoptic charts, occu- 

 py our attention. He gives in detail the telegraphic meth- 



