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In the annual review of meteorological work at present in prog- 

 ress in England, the Quarterly Journal of the Meteorological Society 

 states that the marine meteorology of the equatorial regions of the 

 Atlantic Ocean, as compiled at the Meteorological Office in London, 

 may be expected to be published during the year, and that upon the 

 completion of this work the office will proceed to the study of the 

 meteorology of the neighborhood of the Cape of Good Hope. The 

 office continues also the collection of data relative to the weather of 

 the North Atlantic Ocean during August, 1873, in which month, it will 

 be remembered, the great hurricane occurred in Nova Scotia. For 

 this purpose some 280 logs of vessels have already been received. 



The office has also undertaken the investigation of atmospherical 

 conditions at high altitudes, and has therefore established a station 

 at Settle, in Yorkshire, England. 



The Scottish Meteorological Society have set on foot an inquiry into 

 the causes of the earliness or lateness of salmon, by means of obser- 

 vations made with thermometers continually immersed in the rivers 

 and in the sea adjoining their mouths, and by gauging the water of 

 the rivers. 



The Scotch Herring Fishery Board have also continued their in- 

 vestigations into the connection between meteorology and the suc- 

 cess of the fisheries. Similar observations have been continued in 

 America by the co-operation of the Fish Commissioners and the 

 Army Signal Office. 



The continuous photographic records of the barometer obtained at 

 the Greenwich Observatory for nineteen years (1854 to 1873) are be- 

 ing studied, by Professor Airy, with reference to the possible exist- 

 ence of any measurable lunar atmospheric tide. 



At Edinburgh Professor Smyth repeats the expression of his con- 

 fidence in the possibility of recognizing particular sets of lines or 

 bands in the spectrum of daylight, which bands acquire a marked 

 prominence whenever the atmosphere is charged with watery vapor 

 at high temperature, or whenever rain is imminent from the south- 

 east. 



Dr. Koppen, of St. Petersburg, has, it is stated, accepted the director- 

 ship of the German Seewarte, at Hamburg, whose object it is to study 

 meteorology on a large scale, embracing the movements of the whole 

 atmosphere of the globe, for which work his published memoirs prove 

 him to have a peculiar adaptation. 



The annual volumes for 1874 and 1875, published by Professor 

 Kingston, of Toronto, show the great attention paid to the subject 

 of meteorology in the Dominion, and the energy with which the sys- 

 tem is being extended. The tri-daily simultaneous observations of 

 temperature, pressure, and wind are published in full for fourteen 

 stations, and monthly means are given for numerous others. 



At Vienna the annual volume of observations in Austria for 1874 



