76 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



Maury's labors was so exclusively upon the ocean that, were 

 he living, he would be the first to correct the errors that 

 have been circulated in France. 



METEOKOLOGY IN CANADA. 



The meteorological system of the Dominion of Canada is, 

 as most of the citizens of the United States are aware, in a 

 very prosperous condition, and has many features of the 

 weather bureau of our own country. From the second an- 

 nual report of the superintendent, Professor G. Kingston, of 

 Toronto, we learn that the organization embraced (in January, 

 1873) one central station, Toronto, seven chief stations, eleven 

 telegraphic reporting stations, and one hundred and twenty- 

 six ordinary stations. Among these last are included thirty- 

 eight light-houses, by the addition of which Professor King- 

 ston has materially added to the value of his net-work of ob- 

 serving stations, which has become one of the best in the 

 world, and is specially valuable in that it supplements the 

 extensive system now under the direction of the War Depart- 

 ment. As most of the observers are volunteers, the entire 

 expense to the government of the maintenance of this system 

 (including the hoisting of warning storm signals) amounted 

 to the small sum of eight thousand dollars. Under the head- 

 ing of " Recent progress and present condition of meteorology 

 in Canada," Professor Kingston says: "Prior to the autumn 

 of 1869 there were but few meteoroloscical observers in the 

 Dominion. . . . Being dissatisfied with a state of affairs so dis- 

 creditable, ... I addressed myself by letter and in person to 

 those actually engaged in meteorological observations, and 

 also to others. . . . The result has been a steady increase in 

 the number of observers, and in the exactness and regularity 

 of the observations. From October, 1869, to the spring of 

 1871 the meteorological work of Canada was carried on by 

 an organization that Avas strictly voluntary. . The work of 

 organizing new stations, and of compiling returns, was gra- 

 tuitously performed by the director of the Toronto Observa- 

 tory and his assistants. In the spring of 1871 the Legislature 

 of the Dominion recognized the value of these labors by a 

 grant of $5000 for the promotion of meteorological research, 

 and with a special view of preparing the way for establishing 

 a system of storm signals. ... I liave always entertained the 



