88 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



locality can draw a safe inference as to the manner in which 

 the presence or absence of sun spots is likely to affect it. 



But looking more deeply into the matter, Governor Raw- 

 son very justly adds that if there has been more rain in cer- 

 tain quarters of the globe in certain years, there must have 

 been in other quarters during those same years greater evap- 

 oration, whence it results that the same solar phenomena 

 produce in one portion of the world opposite effects to those 

 produced elsewhere. 12 A, X., 264. 



MARITIME CONFERENCE IN LONDON. 



At the recent Maritime Conference in London the resolu- 

 tions adopted by the meeting embraced the following sub- 

 jects. It was resolved that there should be but one form of 

 meteorological register for naval and merchant services, and 

 that so far as possible a uniformity in methods and hours 

 should be observed. Ocean currents and magnetic variations 

 were recommended for observation. The upper and lower 

 clouds are to be recorded in separate columns. The precise 

 patterns of instruments were not specified, the only require- 

 ment being that those used should satisfy certain tests, and 

 that they should be carefully compared with standard in- 

 struments. It is considered that the general influence of 

 the Conference was decidedly in favor of united action on 

 the part of the merchant service and the navies of the world. 

 Particular stress was not laid upon the conducting of special 

 investigations by sea-captains, as such can be most econom- 

 ically performed at the central meteorological stations and 

 by government naval vessels. 12 A, X., 431. 



THE TEMPERATURE OF STORMY WINDS. 



Dr. Fritsch, of Vienna, communicates to the Annual of the 

 Vienna Meteorological Institute some observations on the 

 temperature of the storm-winds at Salzburg. He states that, 

 since 1864, he has every summer resided in Salzburg without 

 noticing the high temperatures of the southeast storm-winds; 

 but that since he has resided there constantly during the 

 past few years, this has been forcibly brought to his atten- 

 tion, as also the great dryness which accompanies these 

 winds. From the records made at 7 A.M., and 2 and 9 P.M., 

 from 1863 to 1869, lie has selected the stormy winds, and 



