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der any combination of favoring circumstances different from 

 that that has in so remarkable a manner centred about tlie 

 Chief Signal Officer. It is to be hoped that the great obstacle 

 to the most perfect development of the system of synchronous 

 observations,viz.,the telegraphic difficulties, may ere long be 

 entirely removed. 



To the publications of the Army Signal Office during the 

 past year there has been added the "Monthly Weather Re- 

 view," in which is given a condensed statement of the more 

 important meteorological features of the month, accompanied 

 with monthly charts of rain-fall, temperature, storms, etc., 

 supplemented by an annual statistical report, giving, besides 

 the weather items, also a general review of all the influences 

 of the weather upon the various branches of human industry. 



The national importance of meteorological questions has 

 been acknowledged by the establishment of several new sys- 

 tems of meteoric observation, of which we may mention first 

 in chronological order the establishment, underDr. B.A.Gould, 

 Director of the National Observatory at Cordoba, of a me- 

 teorological system extending throughout the Argentine Con- 

 federacy, and which, though not at present supplemented by 

 a system of telegrapliic storm warnings, may reasonably hope 

 to be so whenever the knowledge of the meteorology of that 

 region justifies it, and the commercial interests of the country 

 demand it. 



In Sweden, a Royal Meteorological Institute has been es- 

 tablished under the superintendency of Rubenson. 



In China, under the Bureau of Internal Revenue, a system 

 of telescopic storm warnings has been authorized and placed 

 in the hands of Mr. Campbell. 



The Meteorological Office of Denmark, established in 1872, 

 has published its first annual report, from which it appears 

 that America is to be specially benefited by its system, in 

 that five permanent stations are established in the Danish 

 colonies in Greenland, and those previously established in the 

 West Indies are maintained Avith excellent efficiency. 



The system of stations of the Army Signal Office has re- 

 ceived a very great extension, in that a connection has been 

 established between this branch of the government service 

 and the life-saving stations of the Treasury Department. By 

 this means a continuous telegraphic connection is provided 



