GO ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



has control, being Superintendent of the Post-office and 

 Telegraph Lines. There report to him daily by telegraph a 

 number of rain and weather stations, and in the volume 

 above named he gives the means and sums for 70 stations 

 out of the 80 that he has established. Russell, at Sydney, 

 also publishes a daily telegraphic weather bulletin. 



The French Meteorological Association has begun the 

 publication of a semi-monthly, La Quinzaine Miteorologique, 

 giving for fifteen or twenty stations the daily observations 

 and general weather notes. Possibly this may develop into 

 something equivalent to the Monthly Weather Review of the 

 Signal Office, a publication that has already been copied 

 from by the Berlin and the Toronto weather offices. 



Professor Ragona, of Modena, has issued a circular call- 

 ing for the formation of an Italian meteorological associa- 

 tion. This is done at the request and with the support of 

 very many Italian scientists, and the new society will un- 

 doubtedly be a most active and efficient body. 



In the highest portion of the upper valley of the "Kleinen 

 Fleiss," a branch of the "Mollthal" in Upper Carinthia, there 

 have existed from ancient times gold and silver mines more 

 than 8000 Paris feet above the sea. Here upon the Gold- 

 zeche Fleiss, at an altitude of 2740 meters, was established 

 in August, 1870, a meteorological station, which, as yet, re- 

 mains the highest in the world Pike's Peak only excepted. 

 This station is in the midst of the lesser Fleiss glacier, and a 

 brief discussion of the results of the meteorological observa- 

 tions for six years is given by Hann in the Zeitschrift of 

 the Austrian Meteorological Association. 



The report of the Treasury Committee at London upon the 

 working of the British Meteorological Office recommended 

 that ocean meteorology be transferred to the Admiralty, 

 that the annual grant be increased, and that some aid be 

 given to scientific investigations, as also to the Scottish Me- 

 teorological Society; also that the Council in future assume 

 more entirely the control of the office. The report makes a 

 Blue-book of 21G pages, the whole thoroughly indexed, and 

 forming a valuable resume of the present state of practical 

 meteorology in England. The very voluminous evidence 

 published by the committee shows that unfortunately none 

 of those whom they consulted entertain any enlarged or ad- 



