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logical observations made during five years by R. S. Holmes, 

 is the best account we as yet have seen of the climate of any 

 of the South Pacific islands. The mean annual temperature 

 is 79, the highest 98, and the lowest 58; the number of 

 rainy days 170 per year, and the annual rainfall 124 inches. 

 The climate is a healthy one as compared with most tropical 

 countries. Uniform northeast trades prevail. 



Chambers, of Bombay, communicates to the Royal Society 

 a memoir on the meteorology of that part of India, in which, 

 after giving the results of twenty-seven years of observa- 

 tion, he discusses the relation of the facts thus presented to 

 the present state of theoretical or deductive meteorology. 



Dove has published his annual volume of monthly and 

 five-day means for Prussian, Austrian, Swiss, and Italian 

 stations. 



Mr. C. Todd has published a work on the climate of South 

 Australia, which is highly spoken of. He has at his disposal 

 seventy rainfall stations, from which also weather reports 

 are received. He finds that barometric changes progress east- 

 ward, occupying from two to four days in passing from West- 

 ern Australia to Adelaide, and from twenty to forty hours 

 ill passing thence to Sydney and Brisbane, on the east coast. 



The climate of Yarkhand forms the subject of the first of 

 the Indian memoirs by Blanford, and introduces us to one of 

 the most interesting spots on the globe. At an elevation of 

 4000 feet its temperature is that of Gibraltar and Messina in 

 summer, but of Stockholm in winter. A high, thick haze of 

 fine sand-dust replaces the clear skies of other parts of India. 



AVoeikoff gives in the Vienna Zeitschrlft for November 1st, 

 1877, a sketch of the climate of inner Asia, based principally 

 upon the recent explorations of Przewalski and Pylzof, who 

 journeyed in Thibet, Mongolia, China, Gobi, and Alaschan. 



Plantamour has published in one fine volume "Nouvelles 

 Etudes sur le Climat de Geneve," embracing a discussion of 

 the observations since 182C. 



The climate of Peking has been thoroughly worked up from 

 twenty-three years' observations in a memoir by Fritsche. 

 The temperature of Peking, as shown by observations in 

 1757-G2, has not sensibly changed in 100 years. 



The meteorological observations made at Abbasie, near 

 Cairo, under the direction of Ismael Bey, have, we believe, 



