B. TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS AND METEOROLOGY. 113 



Ocean, near the eastern limits of the area of high pressure. 

 12.4, 40a. 



GLACIATION OF ICELAND. 



In the opinion of Mr. William L. Watts, who is engaged 

 in making some explorations among the glaciers of Iceland, 

 these are increasing year by year; and he thinks that at no 

 distant period the whole island will be covered with ice, as 

 is the case with Greenland. 13 A, 193. 



GLACIERS OF THE HIMALAYAS. 



At the recent meeting of the British Association Colonel 

 Montgomerie gave an account of the glaciers of the Hima- 

 layas, which are most developed in Baltistan, in Northwestern 

 India. According to his statement, these glaciers gradually 

 increase in size from east to west, many of them being more 

 than twenty miles in length, and one, Biafo, thirty-four miles. 

 The thickness of the ice was in some cases found to be 400 

 feet. The phenomena of progress, etc., were found to be sim- 

 ilar to those observed in the Alps. 15 A, September 4, 314. 



TIDES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN. 



The tides of the Mediterranean form the subject of a prize 

 essay by Stahlberger, of Hungary. The author especially 

 dwells upon observations and discussions relating to the 

 peculiar local influences in the neighborhood of the port 

 of Fiume, on the shores of the Adriatic. Pursuing an in- 

 ductive method, he shows the existence of general changes 

 of the water produced by cosmical causes, and local changes 

 due to meteorological or local agencies. Of the former there 

 are principally two oscillations dependent on the sun, and 

 two on the moon. The local changes are caused chiefly by 

 variations in the wind and the barometer. In stating this 

 view, he seems not to have gone beyond what Mr. Ferrel has 

 already published with reference to the Atlantic. " Mitth." 

 Austrian Hydrogr. Office, II.,Y23. 



DAILY WEATHER CHARTS. 



The dissemination of valuable meteorological intelligence 

 has been remarkably facilitated in England by the daily pub- 

 lication, in the London Times, of a small weather chart, show- 



