64 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



tions will form an important part of the Bulletin of Inter- 

 national Simultaneous Meteorological Observations, to which 

 so many nations contribute, in response to the invitation of 

 General Myer and the advice of the Vienna Meteorological 

 Congress. The British and United States merchant marines 

 have already voluntarily added valuable observations to this 

 Bulletin. The navies of Portugal and France also contrib- 

 ute. 



We learn from the Japan 'Weekly Mail that an excellent 

 pamphlet on meteorology has been published by Mr. Joyner, 

 of the Meteorological Department at Tokio, in which he ad- 

 vocates strongly the establishment in Japan of an extended 

 system of observations by carefully trained observers. Such 

 observations have hitherto been made by Mr. M'Vean and 

 Mr. Joyner for the Department of Public Surveys, and by 

 some of the Americans stationed as professors in the other 

 government institutions. 



The International Congress of Meteorologists that was ap- 

 pointed to be held in Rome in September having been de- 

 ferred to September, 1878, the advocates of a series of inter- 

 national Polar expeditions (Messrs. Wilczek and Weyprecht) 

 have widely circulated their programme, detailing the w r ork 

 to be done, which, of course, largely relates to terrestrial 

 physics. It is proposed that each station be occupied one 

 whole year; besides the usual meteorological observations, 

 particular stress is laid upon observations of ice, tides, auro- 

 ra?, magnetic phenomena, and earth currents. 



As these proposed international Polar stations are for 

 purely scientific investigations, and as their plan so perfectly 

 harmonizes with the Howgate plan of an Arctic colony, it is 

 to be hoped that our own government will establish, at least, 

 two such scientific stations one at Point Barrow, the other 

 to the north of " Hall's Rest." 



The sixth annual report of the Superintendent of the Me- 

 teorological Service of the Canadian Dominion, presented by 

 Carpmael in the absence of Professor Kingston, shows the 

 continued activity of the office in gathering meteorological 

 observations from the entire northern portion of America. 

 Twenty new rainfall stations have been established in Brit- 

 ish Columbia; five new complete stations in the northwest 

 territories; eleven in Ontario; two in Manitoba, etc. In 



