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ojiinion that a system of Aveather prognostications would 

 have been placed eventually on a firmer footing if its estab- 

 lishment could have been postponed till greater development 

 had been given to the . . . statistical stations. Had it not 

 been for the action of the United States daring the last three 

 years, the course just indicated by me would have been the 

 wisest. The fact, however, that the United States have in- 

 augurated a very liberal and extensive scheme, and that the 

 observations taken at upward of sixty stations distributed 

 throughout that country can be placed at the disposal of 

 Canada on the easy condition of paying the cost of the tele- 

 grams from Buffalo to Toronto, is a very strong reason why 

 Canada should enter on a work now which in other circum- 

 stances would have been better postponed. . . . With respect 

 to the dispatch of warning signals to Canadian ports ... I 

 have thought it better to make an arrangement with the 

 Signal-office at Washington whereby notices of disturbances 

 which are likely to reach any part of the Dominion are sent 

 to me from Washington. Id Report of Professor Kingston. 



METEOROLOGY IN RUSSIA. 



The extensive system of meteorological stations that at 

 the earnest representations of Humboldt and others was es- 

 tablished throughout the Russian possessions, in tlie year 

 1830 and subsequently, after continuing unbroken until 1864, 

 was in that year somewhat aifected by the death of Kupffer. 

 His successor, the eminent Kamtz, unfortunately lived but 

 two years too short a time to effect the many improve- 

 ments that he had projected. It has thus been left to Wild 

 to thoroughly reorganize this highly important series of sta- 

 tions. The first volume of observations under the new sys- 

 tem that for the year 1870 has but just been received (the 

 delays incident to the publication of such an immense mass 

 of fiofures are well known to those engrao^ed in similar works). 

 In this, besides the hourly results carefully deduced from the 

 continuous records of the self-resfisterino- instruments at St. 

 Petersburg, there are given, both in detail and in monthly 

 means, the observations made durino' the year at seven sta- 

 tions in Asiatic and thirty-nine stations in European Russia, 

 in addition to those taken by Mr. Fritsche at the observatory 

 in Pekin, China. The introduction gives a very exact account 



