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fall reports from numerous stations in Iowa. Predictions are also 

 made by him as to the probable weather for the coming month. 



An office for the study of maritime meteorology has been opened 

 at the '' Depot des Cartes et Plans " in Paris, under the superintend- 

 ence of M. C. Ploix. 



Gautier, of Geneva, has taken especial pains to secure meteorolog- 

 ical observations in Labrador from the Moravian missionaries, and 

 has published those made between 1867 and 1874. Besides these, 

 there exist also some records due to Lamont, of observations about 

 1841. The original record of observations made by the first mission- 

 aries in Labrador, from 1776 to 1784, seems to have been accidental- 

 ly lost to science, until, in 1873, it fell into the hands of the author, 

 who is engaged in preparing them for publication. 



The Permanent Committee of the Vienna Meteorological Congress 

 held its third annual session at Utrecht, in June, 1876 ; it was re- 

 ported that almost perfect uniformity had been attained in the pub- 

 lication of climatological statistics for purposes of international ex- 

 change. With reference to barometric gradients, it was resolved 

 that they should be expressed either on the English scale of tenths 

 of an inch per English mile, or on the metric scale of millimeters per 

 degree (69^ statute miles). The next meeting of the Permanent 

 Committee will be held at Rome, September, 1877, on the occasion 

 of the reassembling of the General Congress. 



The Observatory at Melbourne has published three fine volumes of 

 meteorological observations made in 1872, 1873, and 1874 through- 

 out the colony of Victoria. Mr, EUery states that he has already 

 joined in the American system of simultaneous observations, which 

 is now of world-wide extent. 



The Director of the Geological Survey of Brazil, Professor C. F, 

 Hartt, writes that he hopes to be able to secure a proper attention 

 to meteorology in tliat important empire. 



The Observatory at Batavia, under Dr, Bergsma, has published in 

 a large quarto volume the hourly observations made from 1866 to 

 1870. 



B. Instruments and Methods. 



The most important event in matters relating to instrumental me- 

 teorology has been the exhibition of the Scientific Loan Collection 

 at the South Kensington Museum, where an almost exhaustive array 

 of every conceivable form of apparatus for meteorological research 

 was presented for the inspection of visitors ; in connection with 

 these an admirable catalogue and a hand-book were published by 

 the Royal Science Commission. In the latter volume, dissertations 

 were contained by. eminent specialists, tliat on meteorology by R. H. 

 Scott. In the same connection a series of scientific conferences was 

 held ; that on meteorology occupied three days, ending June 2d. 



